[exit82]

Trump is right. A disaster is brewing.

My opinion is that Russia will strike when the ground firms up in Ukraine.

Russian and Belarus troops will push south, encircle Kyiv, while at the same time pushing west towards the Dneiper River.

The northern pincer will continue and turn west toward Lviv, which is the transportation hub for all the NATO arms coming into Ukraine, and destroy it.

Then they will continue south to Odessa, which is Ukraine's last port on the Black Sea.

What will NATO do?

If they rush troops into Ukraine, they will be met with Russians and Belarus troops, and possibly tactical nuclear weapons.

Long range cruise missiles may be sent against Western European capitals, as Russia knows who blew up their Nordstrom pielines.

The NWO wants to draw Russia out and kill it, paving the way for their new power center in Europe.

But it may not work that way.

Trump knows what a dangerous game is being played.

If Russia feels threatened with its very existence, the nukes are going to fly, even in a Sampson option.

It feels like August 1914, when the idiots in Europe all mobiilized for war, having no clue of the death and devastation to come in the following four years.

Madness!

Peace talks need to begin to avert all of this. But the Zelensky grift and Ukraine money laundry is too lucrative to stop.

[Lakeside Granny]

Biden’s promise to send tanks delayed by lack of inventory: reports

Pentagon spokesperson confirms U.S. does not have 31 M1 Abrams tanks in stockpile.

Greg WehnerBy Greg Wehner | Fox News

Despite President Biden’s promise to send 31 Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday, it could take months for the artillery to arrive, according to reports.

The New York Post reported that Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh confirmed that the U.S. does not have enough of M1 Abrams tanks in its stockpile to send over to Ukraine at this time.

“We just don’t have these tanks available in excess in our US stocks, which is why it is going to take months to transfer these M1A2 Abrams to Ukraine,” Singh told the Post.

If the tanks were in the Pentagon’s possession, it would take less than a week to get the tanks boxed and shipped. But when using the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, or USAI, program, it could take months or years because the government goes through procurement to identify and hire contractors to build the weapons.

Biden announced the weapons approval on Wednesday, just hours after German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz said Ukraine would also get Leopard 2 tanks from Berlin as Russia plans for a major offensive.

Read more......

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-promise-send-tanks-delayed-lack-inventory-reports

[norsky]

Peace talks need to begin to avert all of this. But the Zelensky grift and Ukraine money laundry is too lucrative to stop.

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Yup to that and all the above, lets hope it doesnt get any stupider. This was sent to me, helps us understand how we got into this mess.

"What a difference a 'year of war' makes" Reality bites RAND From Cathi | 01/27/2023 4:54:42 AM PST replied

Oh the irony! Good ole Rand Corporation (our government think tank) came out with a report in 2019 outlining steps the U.S. could take to “weaken, destabilize and encourage regime change in Russia.” Their strongest recommendation to achieve the goals was to provoke Russia militarily in Ukraine. They apparently have had a “change of heart” on the issue and have issued a new 32 page report outlining “It is disadvantageous for the United States to prolong the conflict in Ukraine.”

As one commenter noted: “The same RAND that consistently produced reports for Pentagon that suborning a Ukraine hostile to Russia was the key to effectively destroying Russia.

i.e. Splitting it apart into smaller fiefdoms, vulnerable to Chechnya style terrorist insurrections, and open to exploitation and looting by the West..”

Cyberspec News, [1/27/2023 2:54 AM] RAND: It is disadvantageous for the United States to prolong the conflict in Ukraine

This is the conclusion (https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA2510-1.html) reached by the experts of the well-known American information and analytical center RAND Corporation, having studied the current prospects of Washington, against the background of the growing escalation between NATO countries and Russia.

Experts believe that the United States needs to start taking steps right now to establish a lasting peace, despite calls from Kiev and the hawks of the North Atlantic Alliance to continue supplying weapons until Kiev fully returns the territories of the former Ukraine. To create the ground for negotiations, RAND calls on Washington to do the following:

1️⃣Explain their plans for the future support of Kiev (just to be believed), assuming obligations to ensure security;

2️⃣Provide guarantees of Ukraine’s neutrality;

3️⃣Establish conditions for easing sanctions against Russia.

RAND experts apocalyptically conclude that the alternative to peace is “a prolonged war that creates serious problems for the United States, Ukraine and the rest of the world.”

Interestingly, the RAND material came out before Victoria Nuland’s statements about the probability

https://t.me/c/1564771638/8635) of easing the anti-Russian sanctions and the impossibility (https://t.me/u_now/83955) to deliver Abrams tanks before the spring of this year.