Posted on 05/12/2023 4:24:20 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
I have not written much about the war in Ukraine lately because so little has changed strategically since the first few months of this conflict, when three overarching facts pretty much drove everything — and still do.
Fact No. 1: As I wrote at the outset, when a war of this magnitude begins, the key question you ask yourself as a foreign affairs columnist is very simple: Where should I be? Should I be in Kyiv, the Donbas, Crimea, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels or Washington?
And from the start of this war, there has been only one place to be to understand its timing and direction — and that’s in Vladimir Putin’s head. Unfortunately, Putin doesn’t grant visas to his brain.
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Which leads to fact No. 2: Putin never had a Plan B. It’s now obvious that he thought he was going to waltz into Kyiv, seize it in a week, install a lackey as president, tuck Ukraine into his pocket and put to an end any further European Union, NATO or Western cultural expansion toward Russia. He would then cast his shadow across all of Europe.
This leads to fact No. 3: Putin has put himself in a situation where he can’t win, can’t lose and can’t stop. There’s no way he can seize control of all of Ukraine anymore. But at the same time, he can’t afford to be defeated, after all the Russian lives and treasure he has expended. So he can’t stop.
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Which makes this one of the sickest, most senseless wars in modern times — a leader destroying another country’s civilian infrastructure until it gives him enough cover to hide the fact that he’s been a towering fool.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Well they better start fighting back
You need to spell Joe Biden correctly. Biden makes Putin look like a Boy Scout.
The New York RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION Slimes is far more dangerous.
Putin is an eastern terrorist dictator like the rest.
Putin is such a fool that, despite sanctions that are screwing American and European citizens over by helping fuel a 40-year high in inflation, Russia has moved back into the top 10 in world GDP:
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230507/russia-returns-to-top-10-worlds-largest-economies-first-since-2014-1110160735.html
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has returned to the top ten largest economies and ranked the eighth for the first time since 2014 by producing $2.3 trillion worth of goods and services in 2022, data from the World Bank and statistical services analyzed by Sputnik showed on Sunday. In 2014, Russia ranked the ninth in the list of the world's major economies by manufacturing $2.05 trillion worth of goods and services, while in 2021 the country was in the 11th place, the data said.
The world's biggest and most dangerous fool is Joe Biden, who started and losing the proxy war in Ukraine and who f-ups everything he touches.
So says Sputnik Russian State media, eh?
“But we have the world’s stupidest fool.”
It would be hard to disagree with that.
Once Putin’s gone, things in the world will get MUCH worse.
paywall = worthless
NYT = worthless
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Biden among others is far worse
Thomas Friedman, Double Bag Barf Alert!
NYT and the word FOOL?
It is a terrible book.
Reagan hated Russia. He’d be disgusted with the love around here.
The fact that Friedman picks Putin as the world’s most dangerous fool, shows that Friedman is himself a fool. Putin had solid strategic reasons to invade Ukraine (though I do think that he could’ve accomplished most of his goals without doing this). He definitely has been foolish in many regards. However, it is clear that the single most dangerous fool on the face of this planet resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Biden recklessly threw us into a war with the only other true nuclear super power, a nuclear superpower that believes it is in a war for its very existence. That’s not a wise move at all, quite the contrary. it is utterly reckless and supremely foolish.
“Reagan hated Russia. He’d be disgusted with the love around here.”
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Wrong. Reagan hated Communism. I’m quite sure that he didn’t hate Russians. Instead, I think that he felt sorry for them, trapped as they were in the world’s largest open-air prison.
Meh...you have no idea what Reagan would say about the state of affairs in 2023. He didn’t “hate” Russia either.
When Reagan was President, Russia was a full blown communist threat
They are no longer communist
...from the start of this war, there has been only one place to be to understand its timing and direction — and that’s in Vladimir Putin’s head.To everyone opposing US aid to Ukraine, ignoring who is right or wrong, what has Friedman said here that is not true?
...Putin never had a Plan B.
...Putin has put himself in a situation where he can’t win, can’t lose and can’t stop.
...Which makes this one of the sickest, most senseless wars in modern times
Because no matter which side you are on, Putin made a incompetent, destructive mess of this.
Reagan did NOT hate Russia. He hated communism.
Biden retired that award.
When you’re mustering Thomas Friedman in defense of your position, I know you’ve hit rock bottom.
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