Posted on 01/29/2023 8:50:51 AM PST by BusterDog
Discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war in Washington is increasingly dominated by the question of how it might end. To inform this discussion, this Perspective identifies ways in which the war could evolve and how alternative trajectories would affect U.S. interests. The authors argue that, in addition to minimizing the risks of major escalation, U.S. interests would be best served by avoiding a protracted conflict. The costs and risks of a long war in Ukraine are significant and outweigh the possible benefits of such a trajectory for the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at rand.org ...
I’m just busting his chops about soccer.
Very anti-American.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
“Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American political activist, and former United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation,...”
In countries with fewer freedoms, some political factions tend to publish generalized or exaggerated American flaws to distract their own populations from domestic discontent.
That was an old Soviet thing also, true. And a staple of Nazi/Fascist wartime propaganda.
It was, in some places, quite sincere though.
The old intellectual class had elite social roots, and the argument about social class (the Americans being déclassé in those days) was real.
It has returned in full force in the US however, one of the most curious things in my lifetime.
“Rand”
Who?
They should be worried - they’re crooks but will probably squirm out of it
This paper has a international realist tone to it. In regards to Ukraine the realist view of academics who sleep in safety is running into the test of reality and failing.
Do you want Russia to win? Is that why you say that? I don’t see anything that indicates that.
Well I’ll be...
A mystery is solved.
You’re really William Bristol,been posting here all this time.
This conflict is between Christians and a combine of nazis and the fops and wankers who stole the 2020 election and replaced DT with JoJo the ****ing gangster bum Biden.
You can bet your ass I want Russia to win. I assume that God also wants Russia to win. Clint Eastwood said that God hates idiots and I assume he hates nazis as well.
If there’s a joke there, I don’t know who William Bristol is.
Wow.
Stop drinking, dude. You are sounding like a raging madman.
William Kristol.
lol don’t like him.
What do you mean “sounding like”?
No good guys here and the mis-information is so thick it is impossible to know who is winning. In truth—no one is winning but the arms merchants and the people who make body bags.
In time, when people are sick of all the killings, the war will end. It will not be a ten year war but it could last another five. All wars end—only a few have total defeat like WW II. Goal should be to contain the thing—not expand it. Cooler heads needs to be in charge.
So the U.S courting China in the early 70’s via suck up diplomacy and essentially putting CCP control of China in stone is a great success story is it. It’s that retarded policy that now has China on the brink of knocking Uncle Sam of it’s pre eminent perch.
You’ve got this conceited notion that opposing American adventurism and questionable geo political manipulations is anti Americanism. Might I remind you that DJT was opposed to sstupid Bush’s Iraq imperialism. And didn’t the founders if the U.S republlic warn of foreign entanglements via alliances. Time you got a nuanced view of wot is and is not anti Americanism
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