Posted on 04/02/2021 12:32:45 PM PDT by Mariner
Two other facts are never mentioned: 1. The existing cease fire expired yesterday. 2. But for about a month Kiev has been putting military pressure on the rebels in Donbas and importing NATO arms.
All in all, I say yes...the Russians are going to invade and seize all land east of the Dnieper river. And nobody is going to do anything about it.
Nor should they.
Russia will invade Ukraine, and at the same time China will invade Taiwan. Harris/Biden will not lift a finger to help either one.
And?
We aren’t going to do anything but acquiesce.
Let ObamaIdiot’s handling of Ukraine-Russia be the guide/blueprint.
Always heartwarming to see the love for old Soviet Russia renewal by invading others here on Free Republic.
(Puke)
Russia has a better chance in invading Ukraine than China with Taiwan. Unless China is willing to use nuclear weapons then all bets are off.
Putin laughs, points and speaks to his comrades;
“and THIS....Is their ‘Leader’!!!!
We will reclaim Ukraine in the same way we reclaimed Crimea!
There will be no actual opposition, only token warblings. They will be far too busy keeping the newly arrived illegal criminals rounded up.”
Don’t call him byDUHn fer nuthin....
Russia got 1/2 of Ukraine when Biden was Vice President, they might try to get the the other 1/2 while Biden is President
We have zero interests in Ukraine.
Why would any POTUS intervene?
Russia senses weakness in the WH
Joe Biden in “Falling Down”.
That’s arguing from a rational point of view. The oriental notion of “face” is one of the prime drivers of the Han desire to “reacquire” Taiwan.
Ukraine HAD nuclear weapons (from when it was USSSR), they were talked into giving them up by the rest of the world with assumptions of protection
Whatever happens or has happened to Ukraine is an unfortunate message to other countries that want to start their own nuclear programs, which we usually try to talk them out of
Also somehow Putin/Trump got associated together and Biden/Ukraine, so conservatives take Putin’s side. But it makes no sense at all and we as a country should technically support Ukraine
Ukrainian observers believe the Kremlin may even consider a decisive military push through south-eastern Ukraine to create a land corridor linking Crimea with Donbas and end the peninsula’s chronic water shortage – Ukraine has blocked 85 percent of water supplies to the Crimea since 2014.
Crimea and Black Sea access has been a Russian project and possession for 400 years. They certainly don’t want NATO anywhere near Crimea. The only thing that surprises me is that Putin/Russia didn’t grab a land corridor when the Crimea Referendum was done in 2014. Why have they waited?
> Nor should they. <
If you mean that no power should step in and fight Russia over the Ukraine, then I must agree with you. But if you mean that Russia somehow deserves eastern Ukraine, then I must disagree. Unlike with the Crimea, even eastern Ukraine is heavily Ukrainian by nationality. Russia has no moral right to that land.
But as I’m sure you would agree, it’s all not worth the bones of a single American soldier (to paraphrase Bismarck).
“But it makes no sense at all and we as a country should technically support Ukraine”
We have no interests that indicate supporting either side.
Non-proliferation has been dead for 20 years. Those who can, will.
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