Posted on 02/26/2023 12:20:20 AM PST by familyop
Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, told Newsmax Saturday that the United States must give Ukraine the tools to go on the offensive in the next year to bring the war with Russia to a close...He said the military equipment being sent to Ukraine as part of America's more than $100 billion in military and humanitarian aid is being fully accounted for with as many as four separate audits to ensure the aid is going where it is supposed to. He said, however, he is "less certain about the cash" being sent.
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The war will end when Russia says so.
“….in the next year….”
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In the NEXT YEAR? That would be 2024. Sounds right… an endless war to keep the money flowing. This politician is saying the things (and undoubtedly also doing the things) that will keep the lobbyists’ cash flowing to his campaign chest.
It’s telling how after a year of Putin’s failing Terror Invasion, the Putin Stooges can’t say Putin will win in weeks or even months.
Thanks to Biden giving Putin a big source of income by signing off on the Nord Stream pipeline, Russia will continue the War until Trump is elected.
While Russian tanks are modernized, their firepower and protection is largely the same as they were in 1990-2000. ERA doesn't help if its never installed and modern ATGM and tank rounds can defeat it. The tanks Ukraine is going to get are upgrades of the generation of western tanks that destroyed Iraq's Russian bought tanks - twice?
By June there will likely be a Ukrainian offensive. When that happens, Russia will not be able to blame its tank's performance on export models and lack of skill of a non-Russian army. Which they can't now, since Ukraine is using mostly Russian weapons.
This war is none of America’s business. Pick up a rifle and head to the front lines if you think it’s your business, but leave us out of this war.
The theory has been: stop Russia on the ground in Ukraine + economic sanctions = victory.
The theory is wrong because it supposes Putin cares about the economic consequences of sanctions either directly (because he cares about the Russian people) or indirectly (because he and others in office are subject to periodic elections). No. Putin is a megalomaniac. He cares about achieving immortality as a conqueror. Like Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolph Hitler. Winning would be good, and you have to initially win, but great conquerors gain a certain kind of immortality even if they ultimately lose.
(The theory is also wrong because the sanctions are leaky. But, that’s another issue.)
The new theory is that Ukraine has to go on the offense. This is tricky. IF Ukraine threatens to take Crimea, Russia might be persuaded to return to the 2014 lines in order to prevent Ukraine from taking Crimea. There’s a certain logic to this theory. But, like the original theory it supposes Putin is rational.
The last time Russia was defeated was during WWI. Yes, Russia’s army was defeated in the west (that is, by Germany; the Russian front is to the east of Germany and the German front is to the west of Russia). But, Russia was knocked out of WWI by internal collapse, not by the defeat of its army in the west. To borrow a phrase from Erich von Ludendorff, Russia was “stabbed in the back.”
The psychological analysis of Putin suggests that Russia might only be defeated by internal collapse, not by the defeat of its army in Ukraine combined with some kind of loss calculation. And, being an increasingly totalitarian country, internal collapse in Russia would take a lot.
RECALL this idiot!
Such passion for a foreign country that has a history of blatant corruption! Where is your passion for the USA?
Amen to that. This is Biden’s personal matter. I would not serve to fight for the dictator Zelensky.
I am reading that we are soliciting Russian type tanks from Central American countries such as Venezuela and Cuba to send to Ukraine quickly in exchange for updated US versions for their trouble.
Get Ukraine everything they need to defeat putin/russia
He can go him-Self if it’s that important to him.
“It’s telling how after a year of Putin’s failing Terror Invasion, the Putin Stooges can’t say Putin will win in weeks or even months.”
That’s because HE ALREADY WON once he survived the ‘sanctions’, which have destroyed Germany’s economic base (relied on cheap natural gas) and made life suck for the rest of Europe.
The Neocon IDIOTS likely figured that either Putin wouldn’t fight, and thus get overthrown due to the Neocon-planned bloodbath in Ukraine (driving every Russian-speaker out, and killing many in the process), or that Putin would fight, and then the sanctions would destroy Russia. Neither happened.
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