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To: rdcbn1

I don’t say it lightly but what makes it difficult is Russia’s moves going unchecked or responded to tit for tat. Ignoring them is tacitly encouraging bad behavior. Have we no small nukes anymore? Or neutron bombs to kill mainly personnel?
I wonder if fuel air thermobaric bombs have to be dropped or if they could be delivered by bigger drones or on some sort of surface to air missiles that would be ok to delver there?
Trying to be helpful with the suggestions since so much of what we give seems to be delayed and too little too late to be really useful.


8 posted on 06/16/2023 1:17:04 PM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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To: desertsolitaire
A friend of mine worked on the neutron bomb program. We never moved forward with that project which was a mistake. We are in a very strange position in Ukraine. On one hand, if we directly intervened, the Russians would be in very big trouble. We would have air superiority within days and then we could dismantle Russia's forces in the country in detail at our leisure. Until the Russians responded with nuclear weapons, of course. On the other hand there is very little we can do help the Ukraine. We could have a year ago, but NATO wanted a bitter, bloody and protracted proxy war to wear down and drain the Russian Army with a long conflict. And that's what we got. Had we went for a decisive win at the start of the conflict, things could have been different but that window has closed. The Ukrainian forces were bled and depleted too so there is very little we do to help them turn the tide of this conflict. They have run out of men, they are running out of weapons and they are running out of time. Forget the insanity of thinking there will Ukrainian tanks rumbling down Red Square in Moscow. Forget retaking Crimea. Forget expelling the Russians from the old borders of Ukraine. Now the real deal is how much of Eastern Ukraine is Russia going to keep and how deeply will a permanently neutral Ukraine be disarmed. For every day this thing keeps going the weaker Ukraine becomes, the more depleted and demoralized NATO becomes and the less NATO can support Ukraine. So that means the cease fire line keeps moving West and the less favorable the terms Ukraine must accept to end the conflict.
19 posted on 06/16/2023 2:04:31 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: desertsolitaire

“Trying to be helpful with the suggestions since so much of what we give seems to be delayed and too little too late to be really useful.”

Yeah all that crap you mentioned would be helpful for abundant life and polite society on this planet.
You go man!
Got Jesus?!


47 posted on 06/16/2023 3:53:43 PM PDT by Right Brigade (It was better before they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
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