Posted on 06/28/2022 9:19:29 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
He also did that at the start of the Covid panic. We were short of necessary supplies. Putin called Trump and offered to send them and Trump accepted.
Global Times Investigates: US wages global color revolutions to topple govts for the sake of American control
December 2, 2021
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1240540.shtml
from the article:
Moreover, the US is also switching its strategies in its practice of color revolutions, Zhang said. "Funding the oppositions to achieve regime change was the main method, but now the US is increasingly trying to change other countries' diplomatic policies to ensure the countries' likely support of US global policies. This has been shown to be the stance of Lithuania and a few other countries."
And look who's playing games with access to Kaliningrad JUST NOW - Lithuania.
Great article on the whole and would have been perfect if written during the first couple weeks of the military action while the outcome was still relatively uncertain.
But, at this stage he is outlining the results like they were potentially a coin flip.
He’s right that defeat will be devastating to either side. So keeping in mind the realities of the current situation I suggest NATO start making a plan for how to deal with the almost certain defeat.
I don’t see Biden using nuclear weapons first. The blowback from that would likely lead to a revolution. And I also don’t see the war lasting as long as Mearsheiner expects.
It is one thing to say that Ukraine’s “well trained to NATO standards” army fought hard, but that was while they were still alive. Ukraine’s losses have been catastrophic. That army is permanently gone. The current one is so inept that they have been having multiple friendly fire incidents on a daily basis.
What NATO needs now is a strategic plan for how to deal with and learn from defeat.
Ukraine has lost more troops during the Russian invasion than there are infantry in the British army, defense expert says
More Ukrainian troops have been killed or seriously injured than there are in the British infantry, a defense expert said.
Jack Watling announced the statistic at the RUSI Land Warfare Conference Tuesday in London.
Up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are being killed or wounded each day, Axios reported earlier this month.
Russia is attempting to arbitrarily revoke its recognition of Lithuanian independence from the Soviet Union. Which ceased to exist in 1991.
Thanks to it, along with Belarus and Ukraine, petitioning the UN to be recognised as, er, sovereign independent states because, duh, the USSR didn’t exist anymore.
Irony is, if Russia passes that legislation it will be effectively setting the precedent that Lithuania is the last remaining country in the USSR.
Which would mean it is entitled to the USSR’s seat on the UN security council - a seat Russia and Ukraine and Belarus can only lay claim to because they assert the USSR doesn’t still exist.
Not only is Lithuania entitled to retaliate against Russian bullying by imposing limited sanctions, it’s potentially entitled to go to the UN, drag Russia out of its UNSC seat if tge Duma is dumb enough to say that the USSR still exists... And Lithuania is it.
By the way: Lithuanian land “blockade” is no different to Russia’s sea blockade of Ukraine.
In both cases the “aggressors” point out there are loads of ways to move the goods that aren’t blockaded.
If Russia wants to argue that the blockade of Kaliningrad is tantamount to a declaration of war against the nation that can’t send or receive goods, then by its own logic the “special military operation” is a declaration of war on any nation whose grain is being blockaded by Russia.
How’d you like them apples?
I don’t think they would start a conventional war that could result in a nuclear war if they are likely to be defeated in a conventional war. So getting their butt really kicked in by Ukraine would just make that possibility more unlikely. Also beating Russia would make it more unlikely that China would invade Taiwan or even North Korea would be discouraged from invading the North.
And? Russia and other countries do the exact same thing when they can. Doesn’t make it right. But Russia and China and Britain and France have no room to criticize us.
You're exactly right.
Yep bush i took the ron paul approach to saddam and kuwait: that is” we dont care not our business”... worked spledidly...
Yeah when your nukes are pointed atbus, your a baddie as far asvwe are concerned.
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