So they cant even beat Ukraine but somehow people are expected to show them respect? What a joke.
So they cant even beat Ukraine but somehow people are expected to show them respect? What a joke.
Quite the contrary I'd say.
Whatever happens to Ukraine, it is not all that important to the US. What is important is that they are able to directly weaken their enemy, crush their economy, rally the world against them and test their new weapon systems against a real military power. Even if Russia manages to eventually conquer all of Ukraine, it will take several years, and will cost them most of their equipments. They will never recover from that.
Russia thought they would flex their muscles and scare everyone with a big rapid win in Ukraine, so that all the other ex-USSR countries would follow. They failed miserably, and have no way out where they can look good now. I don't know if that is what the US intel was predicting, but the outcome is amazingly in the favor of the US right now.
Anytime you can give weapons to someone else so that they can shoot your enemies without any consequences, it is a sure win. They give a bunch of $150K Javelin to Ukraine, which they then use to destroy tanks worth $15M each, and no one is shooting back at the US.
That will be their cheapest war in history!!
I don't know if they tought it was going to happen that way, but if they did, it was brilliant. And if not, they won anyways.
Putin foreshadowing his use of nukes? This is a pretty ominous statement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday there could be no winners in a nuclear war and no such war should ever be started.
Putin made the comment in a letter to participants of a conference on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT), more than five months into his war on Ukraine.
“We proceed from the fact that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed, and we stand for equal and indivisible security for all members of the world community,” he said.
International concern about the risk of a nuclear confrontation has heightened since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. In a speech at the time, Putin pointedly referred to Russia’s nuclear arsenal and warned outside powers against any attempt to interfere.
“Whoever tries to hinder us ... should know that Russia’s response will be immediate. And it will lead you to such consequences that you have never encountered in your history,” he said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/p...shed-rcna40964
"And it will lead you to such consequences that you have never encountered in your history,” he said."
"Truth...justice, honor, freedom! Vain indulgences, every one(...) I know what I want, and I take it. I take advantage of whatever I can, and discard that which I cannot. There is no room for sentiment or guilt."
That article is just part of the OODA-loop he's trying to infect everyone with.
"Will he or won't he!?!?!?!?" is what he wants you to keep thinking. Obsessing over. Making so that you can't take any decisions.
That's how he has ruled Russia for the past 20 years. Keep people in an OODA-loop so they become passive and believe there's no right or wrong, truth or falsehood anymore.
That plays into it as well.
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Who says it's America bad? government acts in whatever drives their interest and I rather see the world for what it is then some made up fairy land where we are the good guys here. The natural resources of Crimea and the separate regions are not the main prize in this war, bread basket diplomacy is also a thing China is currently using their considerable stock pile as leverage.
If Putin had done a small incursion instead of going for the whole pie we probably would have reacted the same as before.
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Well the press hasn't been subtle when it comes to pointing out that difference.
Possibly. I would hope we would have been wiser then as well, but we didn't learn much from Georgia and Crimea.
It's also interesting to compare this war with General Shirreff's (fmr DSACEUR - so it does indicate NATO and UK thinking) "War With Russia"; where a piece of Ukraine is just swallowed without problem, and even the Baltic States are conquered but with the insurgency that people thought we would see in Ukraine.
I also wonder if the President have read it - including the end.
The US Senate has voted 95-1 to add Sweden and Finland to NATO. Sole no vote was Josh Hawley, while Rand Paul voted present.
Yeah, I know.
In other news, I remember learning about this practice in elementary/first year of secondary ('88-'89) really back to the Sovjet Union eh?