[mac_truck]

Interesting analysis from outside the DC beltway.

[Jeff Chandler]

it can no longer rely on the United States to come to its rescue

Why should we?

[shadowlands1960]

I don’t agree with the ‘grinding war of attrition’ part. I guess it depends on how big of a bite from Ukraine they take.

[Luke21]

Russia has possessed Ukraine a lot in the past. Was one of Stalin’s most horrific launching pads for genocide. The weak, tyrannical EU and the woke Globalist American Empire against Russia on their home turf. Putin would like the odds.

[faithhopecharity]

Russia could take remaining key strategic assets with relatively little difficulty

so,... while certainly Putin does not have to do it (per the article), he very well may.

imho

we will see, time will tell

[Wuli]

Actually, western Europe defeated itself through its own treasonous political class.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Why would Russia want to get into a shooting war when they can gain political influence in another way?

[vikingd00d]

Western Europe is fated to be conquered in any event; better for them it be by the Russians than the Muslims.

[Kazan]

Good for Putin. He’s doing what’s best for his country and is beating back the globalists.

[SaxxonWoods]

Meet the new Russian satellite states!

[dfwgator]

Europe defeated itself.

[pierrem15]

Europe and NATO are no longer credible deterrents because Germany is essentially a neutral state now. Decades of anti-American propaganda from 1968 onwards plus the absorption of the Sovietized East German population have taken their toll. In addition, Putin purchased the Social Democratic Party under Schroeder and the SDP now functions as a bought and paid for branch of the foreign ministry. Public opinion polls in Germany show the Germans are willing to accept a Russian "sphere of influence" in Eastern Europe as long as they maintain business ties and it only costs their neighbors not them. Let's call it a new von-Ribbentrop-Lavrov pact.

Meanwhile, the French are flailing around trying to bamboozle the Germans into paying billions more for French weaponry, while their hands are tied by traditional French loathing of les anglo-saxons and the pro-Russian, anti-NATO stance of Le Pen and Zemmour.

What is likely to happen is that the US will make a bunch of bilateral committmeents to Eastern European and Scandinavian states like Poland and Finland as NATO drifts into irrelevancy. The German slide into neutrality could be slowed by exposure of Putin's financial connection to German politicians and by stiff actions against German trade by the US, but with the clownshow unelected junta currently in charge of the US, nothing substantial will be done.

[Navy Patriot]

While the Kremlin has long prepared a gradual decoupling from Europe, the opposite remains unthinkable for most Europeans.

Fortunately, no Tranny, Homo, Pederast, Muslim, Environazi or Woke RIGHTS will be suppressed, and they all will go to the front of the line for their heat and energy allotment.

The rest of you Europeans can Freeze.

[ontap]

Europe surrendered decades ago!!!

[PGR88]

who has defeated Europe? The Russians, or the globalist,socialist, deep state based in DC and Brussels?

[Gaffer]

Europe is dead... has been for a while..

It is migrant Muslim now and the current leaders appear perfectly happy with that.

Europe is not worth defending against the Russians, frankly.

[SuperLuminal]

Not sure, anymore, that that is a bad thing...
There certainly is more freedom and individual liberty in Russia than in UK, Germany, France, Belgium, and Sweden...

[1Old Pro]

Russia threatening to wage war, hey, why don’t we reward them like Omama and Biden like to do, it works. /s

[Republican in occupied CA]

Why should we have to ‘come to the rescue’.

Sorry, not ONE cent for any foreign country until every last vet has a home and healthcare.

The EU isn’t worth the blood of one American PFC.

[bgill]

China has won WWIII without a single bullet.

[Alas Babylon!]

...being too weak to defend itself...

So what are they doing to remedy this?

Maybe some of those Euros going to buy Russian gas should by them some enlistments and weapons.