Posted on 12/15/2023 8:41:15 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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Newest NATO member Finland signs defence pact with US
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/newest-nato-member-finland-signs-defence-pact-with-us/ar-AA1lxumV
“NATO’s newest member, Finland, has announced it will sign a bilateral defence cooperation agreement next week with the United States.
The deal will allow Washington to station troops and store weapons inside the Nordic country, which shares a sprawling border with Russia.
Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen told a news conference in Helsinki on Thursday that Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen will sign the so-called Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) on Monday.
The pact, which still needs to be approved by Finnish lawmakers, “is very significant for Finland’s defence and security,” Häkkänen said...
...The nation of 5.6 million shares a 1,340-kilometre border with Russia that makes up a significant part of NATO’s northeastern flank. It is also the European Union’s external border in the north.
Under the deal, Finland will allow US soldiers access to 15 military areas and facilities covering the entire Nordic nation.
They range from a key southern naval base and inland air bases to a vast remote army training area in Lapland, in the Arctic north.
American troops are allowed a permanent presence and regular exercises in Finland but there are no plans to establish permanent US military bases in Finland, officials said...
...Last week, Finland’s close Nordic neighbour Sweden, which is on the brink of joining NATO, signed a comparable deal.
Alliance member Denmark is expected to do so in the near future.” (Note that the Kingdom of Denmark includes Greenland, and all its Arctic waters).
ATACMS?
Drones.
Nazi gay fascist dnc’s - liberal war - crusades
Spreading diversity - mobocracy - marxism around the world
Keeps costing trillions
100m deaths last century too
There isn’t an ill wind
That doesn’t blow Some good
Hitler - mussolini bombing
The international in Spain
Is a good example of it
The Russians in the ukraine
Israel too in the gaza
Darth Putin 4h
We have destroyed 770 Ukrainian tanks, 760 of which they captured from us.
I remain a master strategist.
Darth Putin 4h
Navalny disappearing shows Russia’s elections are free. Free of opposition candidates.
Darth Putin 4h
Day 659 of my 3 day war. I am losing more soldiers every 5 days than USA lost in Afghanistan in 20 years.
I remain a master strategist
Bild (Germany) published supposed leaked Russian plans for the Ukraine War - a slow attritional grind for the next three years, to gradually take more territory, until the West gives up the fight (Hoping for a new US President to cut off support to the Ukraine). Basically, no limit to Russia’s advance - just as far as they can go, in Ukraine and beyond.
If a new US President (Trump) is sworn in on 20 January 2025, the FY 2025 funding for Ukraine might already be in place, running through Sep 2025.
ISW reports (15 Dec):
“German outlet BILD stated on December 14 that unspecified intelligence findings and sources indicate that Russia plans to occupy Ukrainian territory beyond the four (illegally) annexed Ukrainian oblasts throughout 2024-2026. BILD stated that Russia plans to capture the entirety of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and up to the Oskil River in Kharkiv Oblast by the end of 2024.
These reported goals are in line with ongoing localized Russian offensive operations in Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv oblasts. Russia also reportedly plans to take large parts of Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv oblasts, including Kharkiv City if possible, in 2025 and 2026.
BILD reported that an insider source stated that Russia plans to occupy large parts of eastern Ukraine located east of the Dnipro River within the next 36 months. Russia is reportedly planning to hold the current front line in Kherson Oblast along the Dnipro River and is only concerned about preventing Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine from advancing towards occupied Crimea.
BILD stated that Russia’s plans are based on mobilizing Russia’s defense industrial base (DIB), suffering annual casualties of around 100,000 military personnel in attritional offensive operations, and benefiting from the possible election of a US president in 2024 who dramatically reduces or stops military support to Ukraine.
BILD reported that a source familiar with the intelligence findings stated that the Kremlin plans to rely on “sham negotiations” while continuing to conduct offensive operations similar to the way in which Russia negotiated the Second Minsk agreement in 2015 while the Russian military continued to occupy additional Ukrainian settlements.
BILD previously published largely accurate intelligence findings about Russia’s plans for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in December 2021 which assessed that Russia would attack Ukraine from the south from Crimea, from Russian-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine, and from the north in late January or early February 2022, although the Russian invasion as executed did not perfectly align with BILD’s reporting.
ISW cannot independently authenticate BILD’s reporting, but Russia’s reported plans for the war in Ukraine through 2026 are in line with continued Russian preparations for a prolonged war effort. The Russian military command is pursuing long-term restructuring and expansion efforts to form strategic reserves, and Russia has been gradually mobilizing its DIB to sustain a long war.
Russia’s reported medium to long-term plans to occupy territory beyond the four (illegally) annexed territories are also plausible considering that Russian officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, have reverted to expansionist rhetoric recently, and Russian forces continue offensive operations to expand their positions in Kharkiv Oblast. Russian officials have issued statements about Russia’s intention to occupy and annex additional Ukrainian territory beyond the current front lines and the four (illegally) annexed territories.“
ISW recently assessed that the sudden collapse of Western aid would likely lead sooner or later to the collapse of Ukraine’s ability to hold off the Russian military, and Russian forces could ultimately push all the way to the western Ukrainian border in such a scenario.”
Thanks for posting!
A war of attrition based on a western collapse of aid is a sound, though incredibly tragic strategy for Russian as well as Ukrainian people, based on recent history.
the one point that I keep wondering about is how a ten year war with Afghanistan and all the power , population, and production capability and capacities of the Soviet union(something Russia is not), and a “mear” 15,000 deaths(reported by Soviets I believe) helped lead to the downfall of the Soviet Union from within, and that somehow this is not even considered a possibility.
That Putin can keep up these loses for potentially years, and see no negative blow back.
Additionally like mein kampf, many in the west chose to disregard the written desires of Hitler as fantasy, Putin is stating his goals and has quite clearly stated them again. “Peace” is when I get what I want and what he wants does not align with what “peace” looks like to those advocating negotiations to end his war.
Any “negotiations” that end the war short of his goals is a “peace in our time” 2.0. At best putin would agree to stop short of his goals only because he needs time to regroup and rearm. No different than Hamas and their “ceasefire” desires.
Not in search of peace, but for time
“…I keep wondering about is how a ten year war with Afghanistan… helped lead to the downfall of the Soviet Union”
There were multiple factors, of course. Russians tried all their worst brutality and repression - it is not widely appreciated, just how much the Afghans endured. They fought WWIII against the Soviet Union, and would not submit, regardless of cost. Russians could see no end to the war. They had no solution to the fighting spirit of the Afghans, or to the Western weapons (like Stingers) that also showed no sign of ever stopping.
Also, captive people all across the empire were bucking for freedom, especially in Poland and the Baltics.
Some argue that what really brought it down was not a softening of the hearts of Godless communists, but rather a lack of money to keep it all going. They ramped up military spending when oil prices were high (in the wake of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo), and did not bring it back down when prices dropped. They could not keep their inefficient economy functioning, and fight so many rebellions and opponents at the same time.
History may repeat itself, as Putin drives Russia toward bankruptcy, hyperinflation, and financial collapse.
Reagan was cutting Russia in a 1000 different ways and all over the planet, it wasn’t just Afghanistan that broke them.
Yes I understand the, that is why I said Afghanistan war helped lead to down falll,lower oil prices, Chernobyl, unrest at home….
Lots of reasons, many happening again here, loses in Ukraine dwarf what was happening in Afghanistan
Curious what was the reason soviets went into Afghanistan in the first place?
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