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Sorry about the Tass but the original is behind the WSJ paywall. The neocon money quote, “The serial debates over whether to supply this or that weapons system, the perpetual fear that Russia will escalate to war against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and occasional Kremlin nuclear saber-rattling have instilled a paralyzing caution in Western capitals.” “Paralyzing caution” about starting WWIII sounds wise to me.
1 posted on 08/14/2023 3:38:16 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KZPuvK7Xi0

Russian/Ukraine update, 8/13/2023


2 posted on 08/14/2023 3:45:44 AM PDT by usual suspect
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Maybe Europeans have figured out that fighting John Bolton’s wars just ain’t worth the money, effort and anxiety.


3 posted on 08/14/2023 3:46:46 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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Lord, what an idiot!


4 posted on 08/14/2023 3:54:39 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: hardspunned

Lord, what an idiot!


5 posted on 08/14/2023 3:54:56 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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Imagine all the new private jets, Riviera and Swiss villas, offshore bank accounts, mega-yachts and supermodels to crew them.

Tens of thousands of dead and maimed soldiers are just grist in the massive MIC grift mill.


6 posted on 08/14/2023 3:57:26 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: hardspunned

It’s a European problem and always has been but America under this administration will do anything to help any country but itself.


7 posted on 08/14/2023 4:01:52 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: hardspunned

Bolton sees the light about Ukraine losing
But he blames it on the West for not giving them enough arms ( like over $100 billion who even knows…)
Still refuses to recognize the fault lies with advisors like himself who still fail to understand the “ enemy” Russia and its political will, economic resiliency, and military capability vs “ superior” western weapons and training. Turns out every weapon the West has provided burns well, the Russians adapt swiftly to every “ surprise” thrown at them, instead of charging across empty fields to plant flags in small ruined villages, they are willing to endure the derision of numbnuts like Milley and his girlfriend Kirby for not “taking Kiev in 3 days” and stay entrenched behind deadly echeloned defenses and kill hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian troops.

And Crimea…really is a redline. Not a bluff.


11 posted on 08/14/2023 4:27:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: hardspunned

Everybody hates Bolton.


12 posted on 08/14/2023 4:32:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I feel bad for the Ukrainians but to quote Animal House: You F’ed up, you trusted us


13 posted on 08/14/2023 4:37:49 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Another Biden/Neocon foreign policy debacle. Who didn't see this one coming?
15 posted on 08/14/2023 4:54:54 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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Tass + Bolton = strange bedfellows indeed


25 posted on 08/14/2023 8:26:16 AM PDT by Wuli
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Bolton is as big a liar as any leftist.

The idea Biden hasn't spent enough and sent military aid to Ukraine is beyond a stupid contention.

The Ukrainian military was the second biggest in Europe when this proxy war began and received billions of dollars worth of tanks, missiles and ammo. The Ukrainians were fortified positions that had been built for eight years.

The fact is that despite all that, the Ukrainian military was no match for the Russian military in Russia's own backyard.

NATO itself couldn't have gone into Ukraine and won a war against Russia.

26 posted on 08/14/2023 9:31:25 AM PDT by Kazan
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Ukrainian offensive didn’t break through Russian lines and result in taking of large scale territory and settlements, but Ukrainians are doing way better than Russians were during their own winter offensive. In the last 12 months the only pieces of Ukraine Russians were able to take was Soledar and Bakhmut, Ukraine liberated more land in the past 8 weeks than Russia advanced over in the past 12 months.


32 posted on 08/14/2023 10:43:05 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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