unless your adversary views your population as insects to be exterminated,
Posted on 06/13/2022 8:05:33 PM PDT by Mariner
ARIS/BERLIN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Is it better to engage with Russian President Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine or to isolate him? Should Kyiv make concessions to end the war, or would that embolden the Kremlin? Are ramped up sanctions on Russia worth the collateral damage?
These are some of the questions testing the international alliance that swiftly rallied around Ukraine in the days after the Russian invasion but that, three months into the war, is straining, officials and diplomats told Reuters.
As Western governments grapple with spiralling inflation and energy costs, countries including Italy and Hungary have called for a quick ceasefire. That could pave the way for scaled back sanctions and end the blockade of Ukrainian ports that has worsened a food security crisis for the world's poorest.
Yet Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics warn that Russia is not to be trusted and say a ceasefire would enable it to consolidate territorial wins, regroup and launch more attacks down the line.
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Biden is deliberately using negative economics, ostensibly to crush Russia, but is really deliberately creating conditions for a near to full-on depression - it began with the ending of the Keystone XL pipeline and continues with financially discouraging oil exploration and also halting grain and fertilizer railroad shipments in the US.
They cleaned up on the east, lost in central Ukraine. Stalemate
It’s stalemate.
Thanks Zhang Fei.
Ukraine ping
MercyFlush: [Just to let you know there are several items in the news today showing the Ukrainians advancing and making some unexpected river crossings to attack Soviet positions.
The Soviet offensive is failing and the Ukrainians are retaking territory.]
Russia is firing as many as 50,000 artillery rounds a day into Ukrainian positions, and the Ukrainians can only hit back with around 5,000 to 6,000 rounds a day, he said. The United States has committed to deliver 220,000 rounds of ammunition — enough to match Russian firepower for around four days.]
When Ukraine said it needed fighter jets, it wasn’t exaggerating. Without the 130-odd fighter aircraft USAF pilots flew to Israel during the Yom Kippur War, it’s likely Israel would have fallen to the Egyptians and Syrians. Ukraine isn’t fighting Arabs. Golda Meir was said to be contemplating the Samson option - the nuclear destruction of Egypt’s and Syria’s capitals, when Nixon overrode Kissinger and sent aid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nickel_Grass
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/us-jews-shouldnt-honor-kissinger-594780
Soviet?
If ever there was the need for nuclear artillery shells this would be it.
[If ever there was the need for nuclear artillery shells this would be it.]
unless your adversary views your population as insects to be exterminated,
“Soviet?”
Pardon the cut and paste but I posted this yesterday and it answers your question:
“Putin brought back Soviet Russia as is illustrated by the Red Army being called the ‘Red Army’ again, the Red Army using the Soviet Red Banner as their battle flag, the use of Soviet iconography on government buildings, military uniforms, military medals, and etc.
Oleg Mikhailov, current member of the 8th Duma, introduced legislation this year to make the Red Banner the national flag of Soviet Russia and to replace the State Anthem of the Russian Federation with the State Anthem of the Soviet Union.
Soviet Russia never went away, it just took a break.”
[unless your adversary views your population as insects to be exterminated,]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thebes#Destruction_of_Thebes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Persian_Gate#Aftermath
Heck, even William of Normandy went after the local civilians when his retainers in newly-conquered England were ambushed and killed. His depredations resulted in a 75% reduction* in the population of the lands upon which he chose to inflict exemplary violence (to deter other challengers to his rule).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North
The deliberate root and branch extermination of the entire population is another matter. That’s a fairly unusual approach to empire, and the likely cause of Hitler’s downfall. Whether Alexander or Genghis, successful conquerors tended to incorporate the armies of the conquered into their formations, to replace their losses, keep newly-acquired combat-age men busy and to balance out internal rivals/courtiers in their own high command. That Hitler chose to starve to death millions of able-bodied Russian POW’s he captured, whose fate at Stalin’s hands if repatriated to Russia was death (for surrendering instead of fighting to the end) or a long stint as a guest of Russia’s many gulags is evidence that he had serious hangups about ethnicity.
* Some of these people are said to have ended up in Crimea, of all places.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(medieval)
“Our western partners have given us about 10% of what they have.”
We’re not your partners.
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