...embarassed itself on the world stage...
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The world, including the Atlantic Alliance, the Pacific AngloSphere and the EU is trading with Russia.
They throttle the weaponry donated to Ukraine.
What irks them is that Russia thrives, due to self-sufficiency and also is actively leading a counter Alliance that is actually setting up their own financial system without barring _anyone_ from participating. Success is the best revenge?
I read around the web. Comments from all over the world are to the effect that America, the Western Central Banks and the petrodollar are failing. NATO should have *won* (whatever that may be) handily. They did not.
Because they want to continue this war of attrition until Russia either joins them or is provoked into something horrendously catastrophic? IDK (no one really does),but the churn of war/arms supply/energy royalties/whatever, is obviously sufficient for the West to continue without *victory*.
Ousting Putin would be a pyrrhic victory since those waiting behind him are much less restrained. But he has gotten their goat and made it personal for the West. Historically, that indicates the biggest error will come from the West.
And the SMO grinds ever onward costing Ukraine and it’s backers dearly.
This may be about showing the world the advantage of US armament. But no one needs to buy them because the US simply sends them and they get sold/liberated and are distributed God only knows where.
Honestly, it doesn’t look to be a quagmire for Russia and they don’t appear to be humiliated. (Speaking as a member of the audience watching the world stage)
Right, cause after six months the Russians are conducting a blitzkrieg through Ukraine and not stuck in some WW1 style slug-fest war of attrition.
Putin: ‘I can take Kyiv in two weeks if I want’
https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/putin-i-can-take-kiev-in-two-weeks-if-i-want/
The reasin you can’t figure out what NATO is up to in Ukraine, is because NATO didn’t invade it. Russia did.
and yeah Russia is chewing up the Western weapons given to Ukraine. Chewing,swallowing and dying.
Some of you live in a fantasy world divorced from anything that is actually happening.