[rbmillerjr]

The Russian military is overrated. They struggled in Georgia and it is taking 65% of their military to threaten Ukraine. They can take Ukraine, but they cannot hold it.

There is a reason that Putin only attacks non NATO nations. He knows he can’t beat the West.

[dfwgator]

[Wallace T.]

I don't think the Russians have the ability to permanently occupy Ukraine. However, outside of Poland and Hungary, and possibly the Czechs and the Slovaks, the NATO alliance is a paper tiger. Western European and American NATO's militaries are underfunded and hamstrung by Gramsci type Marxism, as evidenced by women and perverts in combat units, top commanders in thrall to the Left, and in the case of the U.S., racial antagonism.

[Paul R.]

Yes. Putin has said so himself. And in the next sentence will usually then remind us of his nukes. Blackmail, tho’ I question whether Putin really wants to go out as the one who finally destroys Russia (along with most of the rest of the planet).