Way out is not to get in. For a long time now, we have known that our great power rivalry is with China, yet we bogged ourselves down in Ukraine after the Afghanistan debacle.
The other thing Ukraine has done is remind us what real war looks like between industrialized countries. It isn't a battle above 30,000 feet with F22s. It's on the ground with bullets and shells and troops taking and holding territory.
And, as von Clausewitz reminds us, which Russia is focused on, is the destruction of the other side's army, something we didn't do in Korea, in Vietnam, or any of our Middle East adventures.
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Ask Jennifer Griffin / Milley / Austin
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President Rice wants a hot war with Russia so they can turn the censorship and anti-insurrection knobs up to 11 before the mid-terms but Russia is not playing.
The part of the article that surprised and infuriated me is that apparently the EU big three did everything they could to get Zelensky to just enact the Minsk agreement Ukraine had already signed 7 years ago. prior to the military conflict starting.
It was the Biden administration that egged Zelensky on to fight Russia instead with the promise of NATO inclusion and lots of weapons and money.
Well, we are all paying the price now. Our NATO partners were unhappy with how Biden handled Afghanistan and left them in the lurch. They have to be beyond angry now over his unbelievably dumb move of trying to make this a proxy war in order to achieve the Obama/Biden strategy formulated over a decade ago to “destabilize Russia, weaken them militarily and create “regime change.”
We did a pretty good job of destroying NK’s army. So much so that China was forced to intervene.