Posted on 01/14/2022 5:07:01 PM PST by McGruff
Poland's foreign minister said on Thursday that Europe was at risk of plunging into war as Russia said it was not yet giving up on diplomacy but that military experts were preparing options in case tensions over Ukraine could not be defused.
In Washington, the White House said the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine remained high with some 100,000 Russian troops deployed and the United States would make public within 24 hours intelligence suggesting Russia might seek to invent a pretext to justify one.
"The drumbeat of war is sounding loud, and the rhetoric has gotten rather shrill," Michael Carpenter, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said after talks with Russia in Vienna.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“Inept” should cover it...
Romania has no say over Moldova which is an independent and foolishly nonaligned country that the Russians consider to be theirs.
That’s quite a pessimistic analysis. Where did you come by all of these ideas?
Why are you against Russia?
Good point
The second part of the doctrine said that the United States would stay out of European activities. This included actions in established colonies. It provided assurance to Europe that as long as the Americas were not threatened, the United
States would not threaten European countries. In other words, the United States promised to stay out of EuropeâÂÂs business as long as Europe stayed out of U.S.
business.
https://www.joliet86.org/assets/1/6/Monroe_Doctrine_Article___Questions.pdf
Putin is not Hitler or Napoleon, but more like Bismarck, an older politician willing to make a concession or two to achieve his goals of restoring the empire of the Tsars and the Soviets. If that means not pressing for western Ukraine or Moldova and letting Poland, Romania, and Slovakia have a chance to regain lands lost to Stalin, that may be a price worth paying.
All these assumptions depend on (1) the ability of the Russians to defeat the Ukrainians; (2) ineffective NATO response based on the decadent condition of Western militaries; and (3) assuming a simultaneous attack by China on Taiwan, an American decision to focus on protecting Taiwan.
Have you ever been to Romania? Do you know any Romanians? I have and I do and trust me they hate the Russians perhaps as much as they hate the Moslems. They want NOTHING to do with the Russians if it means those bastards setting foot in their country again to rape it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.