[Widget Jr]

Published March 5, 2018. Those in to foreign policy and history may find this of historical interest. There are multiple embedded links to other articles here.

After hearing that Gen. Valery Gerasimov was wounded in the last two days in Ukraine, I found this. It is a critique of the Western European perception of Russia's high tech military doctrines and goals, which as has been shown while fighting in Ukraine are far behind NATO. How Russia wages wafare has clear limits, and they were never entirely blind to this. Past actions in Crimea and Donbass showed how Russia would fight if they invaded Ukraine. How Russia is prosecuting this war is not entirely unexpected.

Fortunately for Ukraine, they paid attention and spent the last ten years preparing for how Russia would actually invade their country.

[PGR88]

Foreign Policy Magazine is like Der Stürmer for globalists and neocons.

[BenLurkin]

The “Tsunami Bomb” may not exist either.

Something about that just seems (pardon the pun) fishy.

[Dogbert41]

I'm sure this A-hole was a the Foreign Policy conference where Biden brazenly admitted to holding up a billion dollars if they didn't fire the prosecutor investigating his son's company. What'd he have to say about that? What did ANYBODY have to say about that at the hallowed Foreign Policy conference or after that?

[Kevmo]

Fortunately for Ukraine, they paid attention and spent the last ten years preparing for how Russia would actually invade their country.
***Uhhh, Russia invaded their country less than 10 years ago, 8 years ago. I think Ukrain spent their time preparing for what they knew was coming: betrayal.

Once that threshold was met, they have been getting the support they need... maybe.

[kiryandil]

Fortunately for Ukraine, they paid attention and spent the last ten years preparing for how Russia would actually invade their country.

And it's a good thing they have "retired" Canadian lieutenant generals and other NATO officers commanding their troops...