Posted on 03/18/2022 7:43:31 PM PDT by blueplum
RUSSIAN state TV has aired a discussion on seizing the Baltic states as Nato bolster Eastern European allies with thousands more troops.
....Just such a scenario was outlined on Russian state TV channel Rossiya 1 by Colonel Igor Korotchenko, formerly of the Russian General Staff and air force and currently a reserve officer...
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Russia can barely handle fighting on a single front...imagine trying to wage war on two.
China would be glad to expand northward while Russia is
involved in the west...
It was I think the Heritage Foundation and not the Brookings. Thanks for catching my error.
XD XD
You’re right, what do they call it? Borrowing mouths?
We are in the End Times and it will get worst, much worst.
My maternal grandmother came from East Prussia which is now called Lithuania, and my grandfather came from Posen (Poznan) which is now Poland. He was in the Kaiser’s navy but decided the future there might end up bad, so they moved to America in the 1890’s. From what I have seen of that extended family, the people in Lituania who are former Prussians, are likely to put up one hell of a fight. During WWII members of that family fled the Russians by riding horse and sleigh across the frozen Baltic to eastern Germany. Many were killed when ice broke. These people have reasons to hate .
“The lying Russian propaganda is the shadier of the two at this point.”
Nothing, NOTHING, is worse than the lying mainstream news media of the USA. Don’t be deceived.
I’m so curious. Isn’t it just a little over 10 percent of Russian military involved in Ukraine? Seems if putting wanted a larger force there he’d supply it. Everyone it spouting that putting is losing, this is not true.
I’m for letting them both fight it out and keeping our filthy corrupt mitts off this one. We probably ly can’t since our corruption. Seeps all the way over to Ukraine too.
If Russia attacks a NATO member then it’s on. What Pidor Putin is doing in Ukraine will not be tolerated in a NATO country and the Russian people will suffer, bleed, and die to feed the ego of their scumbag hooligan leader.
Russia’s force for the Ukraine war is about 180,000 combat troops and another 100,000 to 150,000 logistical forces (including civilians).
There’s maybe another 100,000 active troops dispersed across the country. On paper Russia has 900,000 available reservists and an estimated 800,000 capable veterans to draw on in a pinch.
Hate to say it this way but they look like a spreadsheet army. Lots of numbers that don’t actually relate to the state of military readiness we’re seeing as Russian forces are getting easily killed by Ukraine’s third rate militar.
our shock and awe is way betterer
“Hate to say it this way but they look like a spreadsheet army. Lots of numbers that don’t actually relate to the state of military readiness we’re seeing as Russian forces are getting easily killed by Ukraine’s third rate military.”
Based on all the Internet Crap on both sides and all other sources that is a good conclusion.
If it wasn’t so tragic, these Pooty posters would be absurdly funny. Putin himself has stated Russia can’t beat NATO in a conventional war, which is his rationale, he says in the next breath, for threatening nukes.
Putin uses nukes, and the Russian population is a literal grease stain on China’s newest western province.
Wherever the Russian nukes land would be in the same condition.
Actually, aside from the supposed 40,000 Syrians (etc.) being added, Putin is supposedly moving down some elite troops usually used to protect Moscow itself.
Gotta remember, Pooty has to defend a LOT of ground — 30 countries make up NATO. Plus he has to prop up Assad, too, and his vassal states like Belarus, where it would not take a lot to pop the cork on a local uprising.
That said, Putin is not “losing” militarily in Ukraine, but, he’s getting bloodied, and is going to incur huge headaches just to handle defeated cities. Take Mariupol, for example. What’s Pooty gonna do with it, after bludgeoning it into submission? Feed and shelter everyone? Let them leave? It will take years to rebuild the infrastructure. Putin will certainly be in no position to do so. What, bring in the Chinese? “Even Pooty ain’t that dumb.”
The short answer is that it helped slow down the USSR.* But, there is much more to it. It was a war within a war within a war.
*And as a result, there is still some chance for civilization to survive. Reagan was right. To explain that takes a while. Will try to get back to it later - way too sleepy, now...
This is turning into a game of chicken on a bizarre scale. Given the performance of both Russian and western elites in recent years on various questions, it is time for the ordinary people of both sides to make their opinions clearly known — we don’t want nuclear war or any other kind of war, this entire situation is absurd (the pretext that Ukraine needs to be de-Nazified is a vast over-hype and everything else follows from that).
A Russian incursion into NATO territory will accomplish nothing for them. They would get a few miles into the Baltic states before a huge retaliatory action started to wipe out their military forces where they stood. Even if it did not go nuclear, there would be enormous destruction of Russian military resources both inside the NATO territories and behind the lines in Russia (and probably Belarus also).
If this provides anything of value to Putin, I can’t imagine what that would be. Nobody in the Baltic states or Poland want Russian forces to invade, there is no analogous situation to Crimea and the eastern enclaves in Ukraine.
Yeah. Led by our own government encouraging them willfully, ignorantly, and incompetently.
At least we don’t have the mean tweet guy anymore. That was bad!
Thank God I live in a place nobody gives a rat’s tail about.
I think the BI has always been a home for the CPUSA.
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