Posted on 01/27/2023 6:29:20 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
LOL!
You might want to review the "Sweden is joining NATO" part, tbozo...
“Who said the two sides arent talking?”
Zelensky.
ALWAYS listen to your adversary in terms of rhetoric and actions on the ground. The initial Russian military objective was not to conquer all of Ukraine. The force mix and targeting didn’t support that. They certainly made errors in their initial assumptions. Internal corruption added to that— but that has been resolved, by ruthless Russian problem-solving.
Now, I am not so sure. As the West keeps feeding the fight, the gathering of Russian combat power with a very strong economy suggests they might have concluded Ukraine has got to go in order for them to have stability.
We are about to find out once Poland is cut off from Ukraine and the pincher movement starts to move.
Pro forma, last dot on the last “i”.
But for all intents and purposes they are in. Actually they were probably in long ago, effectively.
The point being, neither country determines US National Defense policy. No one determines Russian National Defense policy except Russia itself.
Russia seems to like to hire its own Nazi's...
The Wagner Group, also known as PMC Wagner; lit. 'Wagner Private Military Company', is a Russian paramilitary organization. It is variously described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, or a de facto private army of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The group operates beyond the law in Russia, where private military contractors are officially forbidden. While the Wagner Group itself is not ideologically driven, various elements of Wagner have been linked to neo-Nazis and far-right extremists.
The problem with “pincher” (or pincer?) movements from Belarus is that any major Russian offensive concentration is going to show up to US recon assets in time for the Ukrainians to concentrate against it. Interior lines, etc.
And that region is a very good place for first use of western tanks btw, besides the best access to western logistical support, close to the Polish border. Its also full of defiles, water obstacles, etc. That all is the southern side of the Pripyat marshes.
Russia’s initial war objectives included the “denazification” of Ukraine, which is just their newspeak term for regime change. The Russian combined airborne assault and armor thrust on Kyiv was clearly an attempt at a leadership capitation to accomplish this. Please don’t repeat the nonsense that Russia sacrificed its elite airborne units for just a diversion.
Russia’s continued repetition of its “denazification” condition shows that it hasn’t given up its goal of regime change.
The two sides are not talking in public.
Actually they are talking on several levels, because they keep arranging for, say, prisoner exchanges. And I suspect there was a quid pro quo that arranged the lack of Ukrainian interference with the withrawal from Kherson. They were after all within easy artillery range of the crossing points. I dont know what the Russians traded for their men. Possibly a promise not to blow the Nova Kakhovka dam, who knows.
Its like the allies and the axis in WW2. There were always backdoor contacts between them. Of course they had nothing substantial to talk about until the Germans (generally locally in fact, each army/army group separately) decided to ask for terms.
Damn straight! We got a whole government: deep state, intelligence apparatus, department of defense, military industrial complex, media, billions of dollars being borrowed and spent and warmonger groupies of both parties screaming for WWIII and here you come talking peace through negotiations, as the Dear Leader aka CNC of all these people would say, “come on man!”
No one determines Russian National Defense policy except Russia itself.
As do the 30 nations of NATO and Ukraine, currently Russia is launching a European war outside of its boundaries.
These people make themselves look foolish in their analogies.
Putin is not Hitler and the Russians are not Germans.
The dynamics of 1939 Europe are far from similar.
The one similarity that is striking is Hitlers warning in April of 39 to the Poles about the brutal treatment of the ethnic german population of the Danzig(Danzig was ceded to poland as Ww1 reparations)
Putin has made similar statements about the treatment of ethnic russians in the disputed territories in the past.
I will add that the Man of Perdition is coming to give us miracles and peace but only after great suffering.
GOT JESUS?
And that is the Amercan taxpayers problem,how?
Sucks to be them.
Not our dog,not our fight.
Ukraine was part of the Russian empire long before the bolshiviks
Become a student of history,its fun.
Concentrate with what? The Ukrainian army is almost destroyed, and the Russians are not moving ahead of their IAD and ISR umbrella.
This is death and taxes.
Alaska was also part of the Russian Empire, should we give it back? Btw, the operative word here is “empire”, not “nation state”.
Ummmm. no. They made some clear mistakes, yes. But they didn’t have to force to take over the Ukraine, and their targeting doesn’t support that. That has changed. They are not making the same mistakes.
I am telling you from a military analysis point of view. I don’t give a rat’s ass who wins.
Please get your history right. Danzig was an separate city-state, it was not ceded to Poland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig
A better historical analogy would be Hitler’s “warnings” about Sudetenland
PS ....Tanks don’t end wars.
No, but the West sending Leopards, Abrams and Patriots is an indication of the Wests long term military support for Ukraine.
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