My assertion is that the Pentagon and NATO better be rebooting as a military force to restrain Russia, with the aim to discouraging it from conquest.
If we are to prevent another Cold War, then containing Russia and preventing it becoming empire again is the goal.
You can’t prevent a cold war.
A cold war is a hot war that did not occur for whatever reason.
There should be no need to “reboot” anything. Maybe some targeting changes,,maybe some sub repositioning.
The US military awaits orders from it’s commander and chief and should be prepared for anything...I mean anything at any time.
I took a few minutes and watched some of the video of Dempsey at the conference. What he was doing was laying down a marker for Russia (Putin) to take notice of. He wanted to let the Russian dictator know that the US was NOT war weary and was prepared. he warned the bastage that he might loose control of the situation and he insinuated that the relationship with the US had now changed.
He was sending a message to Russia. He also told Putin in so many words, that if he believes that the US voters are war weary, which may be the case, he wanted to be clear that US military was not and would engage on behalf of Europe.
So the message was not for the forum or for you. It was for Putin, just as I said.
You can’t prevent a cold war.
A cold war is a hot war that did not occur for whatever reason.
There should be no need to “reboot” anything. Maybe some targeting changes,,maybe some sub repositioning.
The US military awaits orders from it’s commander and chief and should be prepared for anything...I mean anything at any time.
I took a few minutes and watched some of the video of Dempsey at the conference. What he was doing was laying down a marker for Russia (Putin) to take notice of. He wanted to let the Russian dictator know that the US was NOT war weary and was prepared. he warned the bastage that he might loose control of the situation and he insinuated that the relationship with the US had now changed.
He was sending a message to Russia. He also told Putin in so many words, that if he believes that the US voters are war weary, which may be the case, he wanted to be clear that US military was not and would engage on behalf of Europe.
So the message was not for the forum or for you. It was for Putin, just as I said.
“then containing Russia and preventing it becoming empire again is the goal.”
That is precisely what the “Cold War” accomplished without firing a shot. Unfortunately I doubt we can pull that off twice. The win of the cold war involved a lot of events that all led to Russia’s collapse.
But to think for a second that we are not now on a Cold war footing, would be pretty stupid.
Russia is not a rich country, but neither are we now. The odds are not the same as when Reagan initiated “star wars’ and we ran Russia into the ground trying to keep up.
We also now have a relationship between Russia and china that complicates the matter.
One thing certain....there is much more to come.