Posted on 05/19/2022 9:44:27 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Russia should back down and pull its army back within its own borders.
Maybe you've got the cart before the horse... maybe the goal is to gin up citizen rage ... not to distract from it.
Russia has to have at least one active ally for this to be a ‘World War’.
Otherwise it’s just going to be forty or so countries allied in the reduction of the Soviet threat.
This is what the cheese eating surrender monkeys said in the 80’s about Afghanistan.
We should let the Soviets conquer any country it wanted lest we have a nuclear WWIII.
And we should let the Russians dictate to us about right and wrong when the time comes to finally force action on Mexico. /s
Kudos: You wear your sphincter hat proudly.
Where is the evidence that their are American advisors on the ground in Ukraine, much less special forces?
Yes, world wars are the result of alliances dragging other countries into a war. Russia’s alliances broke down 30 years ago and are in a shambles now, and Ukraine has no real allies of their own to speak of. So unless Russia does something supremely stupid like attacking a NATO country, there’s not going to be any “world war”. Even if Russia did that, I don’t think there’s any guarantee that even China would back them up, since China would probably prioritize their own survival and make decisions accordingly.
Yep. And now show the map of Russia’s key allies...
I can’t figure out exactly why USA neocons and deep-staters have such a hard-on for militarizing Ukraine and are so willing to ensure it is totally destroyed in conflict with Russia.
After WWII, the USA and Soviet Union agreed the Soviets would withdraw from Austria, and the country would be NEUTRAL. Seemingly both sides respected the agreement, Austria had no military alliances, it threatened no one - and it became RICH and STABLE.
US neocons and MIC have absolutely resisted such a path for Ukraine for the last 20 years - and now the place is broken forever.
If there is a NATO-Russia war I fully expect China to immediately act to ‘protect’ Siberia by annexing it. That’s the extent of what I expect from China.
Putin needs to leave the Ukraine, Georgia and the Crimea.
Author is constantly wrong.
Ukraine is the worlds largest money laundromat, and 8 figure per year employment agency for politicians prodigal sons
I think the best they could hope for would be for China to attack some US-Nato allies in Asia, like Japan or South Korea. China doesn’t really have the capacity to do much more than that. They couldn’t expect China to help them in Europe any more than Hitler expected help from the Japanese in that sphere.
And as far as Putin being a proxy for the anti globalist people, he's has of course been a complete and utter failure. Unsurprisingly.
The road to WWII started with Japan invading Manchuria.
I doubt that China is going to do anything outside the norm. The harm a Western embargo would do the the ‘harmony’ of China would be legendary.
As big a commie as Xi is I doubt that he wants to cripple his own economy to take Taiwan over a point of pride. Were I Xi I’d unilaterally declare Taiwan an independent country and move on. Let some other Chinese leader think about it 50 or 100 years from now.
Interesting map. It is so obvious, yet more starked when rendered cartographically.
So we are looking at 20% of the people, but about 70% of world GDP.
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