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IMO < and there are plenty of folks who disagree, Russia made
their situation much worse by attempting to do what they are
doing. On a global scale, they just proved to the world that
their military is in serious disrepair. China must be looking
at this and thinking that Taiwan is not as ripe as this new
plumb.

Russia has essentially played all his less than face cards,
and now can only play his Kings, Queens, and Aces.

His standing military has been thoroughly routed. Look folks,
I still think Russia may pull it off, but let’s be honest
with ourselves. The Ukraine had a rag-tag army at best.

Now if China or Europe or anyone else wanted to take
Russia on, Putin’s choices would be nukes and nukes. Is
that a good situation?

In all honesty, I don’t seen anyone prepping to take
Russia on. The Ukraine isn’t building forces, or least
wasn’t. None of Russia’s other neighbors wanted to
confront it.

To me this seems like Putin wanting to relive the old glory
days, and if his troops took the Ukraine in 3 or 4 days,
he would be seen as a tested leader of the nation when it
came to military matters.

I think a lot of his people see it that way. I don’t think
he is too popular right now.

I know three or four of his generals won’t be supporting
him any longer. Some of them at home are probably very
leery of him right now. He must be in a terrible state
of mind. That doesn’t bode well either.

I’d like to think two months from now Putin will have
pulled whatever he can out of the Ukraine, and will make
a pact with himself to never try this again.

I think China sees this as the opportunity of a lifetime. Regardless of how this ends (assuming we survive it), Russia is going into an arms building frenzy. They will initially go on the cheap and follow Reagan’s lead from 1982 by deploying a whole new class of intermediate range nukes. NATO cities and installations will be in much greater jeopardy than they currently are. Where will the financing come from? China, of course. NATO is doing an incredible job of driving Russia into Xi’s servitude. All banking, financial, communication, trade, petro trade as of TODAY, goes through Beijing. At what price? Russia is now China’s proxy, tying up American military, economic and diplomatic assets and attention. Xi puts his money on Putin, Putin does the dirty work. At a similar point forty years Reagan spent the Warsaw Pact under the table. Are you and I ready to borrow Putin and Xi under the table. We are in a new generational arms race in Eastern Europe. You know how this turns out. My God, how many times have we seen this before?

Tell me your honest opinion of the Russian Army 50 years ago, 20 years ago, one month ago. Overnight, literally, they were paper bears. No one questioned how this happened. Overnight, it was Winston Zelenskyy, I shit you not. Overnight, the Ukrainian generals were all Pattons, every citizen Audie Murphy. I simply don’t believe it. If you use Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom as models, you’ll see the Russians have secured the labs and nuclear sites have taken out command and control and are waiting for Shock and Awe. I’d best quit or I’ll have you thinking I’m some Putin stooge. I could not agree with this analysis below more. Please read it and ask yourself BEFORE both sides disinfo kicked in, which version would have sounded more reasonable a month ago? Have good night.