Posted on 04/13/2022 3:56:08 AM PDT by tlozo
The relatively brief but bloody war in Ukraine is entering its fourth phase. In the first, Russia tried to depose Volodymyr Zelensky’s government and sweep the country into its embrace in a three-day campaign; in the second, it attempted to conquer Ukraine—or at least its eastern half, including the capital, Kyiv—with armored assaults; in the third, defeated in the north, Russia withdrew its battered forces, massing instead in the southeastern and southern areas for the conquest of those parts of Ukraine.
For those of us born after World War II, this is the most consequential war of our lifetime. Upon its outcome rests the future of European stability and prosperity. If Ukraine succeeds in preserving its freedom and territorial integrity, a diminished Russia will be contained; if it fails, the chances of war between NATO and Russia go up, as does the prospect of Russian intervention in other areas on its western and southern peripheries. A Russian win would encourage a China coolly observing and assessing Western mettle and military capacity; a Russian defeat would induce a salutary caution in Beijing. Russia’s sheer brutality and utterly unwarranted aggression, compounded by lies at once sinister and ludicrous, have endangered what remains of the global order and the norms of interstate conduct.
In Washington, the metronome of war ticks too slowly. The administration has not taken advantage of the near-unanimous support for Ukraine in Congress—a marvel of bipartisanship in this contentious period of American politics—to press for much larger sums for the Ukrainian military. It has moved slowly to procure for Ukraine the heavier kinds of weapons that it knows are needed...It feels like business as usual in the Pentagon. Some Russian banks have been sanctioned, but not others...
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So far, compared to say Vietnam or Korea, when the Russians went all out to arm/support our enemies we’ve been pretty retrained.
It’s always been a balance of the nuclear game, and I think putin knows he can push a lot.
US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to ‘weaken Russia’: former NATO adviser
The Grayzone: Pushback with Aaron Maté
(This has been planned for a LONG time.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4zReg7Bhu8
The interest in your war is gone.
“So far, compared to say Vietnam or Korea, when the Russians went all out to arm/support our enemies we’ve been pretty retrained.
It’s always been a balance of the nuclear game, and I think putin knows he can push a lot.”
Putin is a guy who pushes a lot period. This is how he arrived at his station. He is not a post turtle. He has taken chances and won. Personally, I am not a Putin fan, but I am also not Joe Biden and Democrat demented to the person Putin is. This war will stop when Russia feels threatened by Ukraine. No sooner.
I still think putin is possibly dying of some form of disease. He hasn’t looked well or been mentally stable. Hell, he could last another 20 years, but I kinda sniff that something’s really off.
Keep beating that nasty drum, baby!
Ukraine and NATO a peril to Russia? Russia is a third world shit hole with nuclear weapons.
“He hasn’t looked well or been mentally stable.”
Have you seen the dope “playing president” in the White House?
Yeah, very close to equally rotten at this point. Putin wins the loser round by invading a non-threatening neighbor though by a bit.
You may also add that Georgia in the lower right was raided in 2008 for exactly the same reason - and the West did nothing.
Also, WWI saw Russia attacked in much the same way, but with Turkey participating as well.
Face swollen in photos, neck covered. You could be correct.
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