Posted on 01/31/2023 7:53:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The great nightmare of the Cold War was that giant Russian tank armies would not only crush their immediate neighbours but also sweep across the north German plains, hug western cities like Hamburg and hold them hostage, confounding all our calculations about a cautious escalation ladder. Now we have promised to supply Ukraine with a Nato tank army, there is a new version of this bad dream: is the war set to run out of control?
It is difficult to see the relatively small number of pledged tanks matching their billing of becoming a game changer. At the Battle of Kursk in 1943 — still taught in Russian military academies as one of the pivots of the Second World War — Hitler had 50 divisions with 435,000 men and 3,155 tanks against a Red Army force of over a million men and 3,275 tanks, a clash between heavy-gunned armadas. In the Russian telling, it was the swansong of German armour, a masterpiece of Soviet operational land war.
Little wonder that western militaries fetishised the Russian tank threat. My father told the story of a 1960s military exercise on the Lüneburg Heath, south of Hamburg and not far from the East German border. He became stranded and ended up in a sprawling barn filled with loud, chain-smoking and carousing Scottish troops who had been designated “dead” by the war game referees. They had been outmanoeuvred by made-up Soviet tank units which were already deep inside West Germany. “You must be in hell,” my mother told him when he rang her to complain about the Jocks.
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Remember when all the dems kept saying Trump was going to get into a war?
They said Trump was going to start WW3.
And he was so non-war.
Now their potus of choice is going to start WW3.
I would love to hear if they are happy.
The ‘Laudering’ War
Feb 12th I’m sending the penis piano player a Valentine card
Not forever. One of two conditions will end it.
1) Russia looses half a million men or more
2) Russian citizens die by a few million of starvation
2) Russia takes over all most all of Ukraine.
It could go ‘cold’, Russians holding what they have and not firing on any particular day until the Ukrainians do.
Another more likely scenario will end it. The de-dollarization of the economies of the fast expanding Brics+. nations in 2023. That destroys the money printing presses, pushes the 32 trillion dollar debt to the front of the line and collapses the empire of lies in short order.
None of those.
1.We escalate weapons until a serious hit on Moscow happens.
2.Russia uses tactical nukes.
3. NATO ground troops enter to fight Russia.
4. Russia takes out all the US bases they can hit while their belgorod sub and hypersonic nuke boat release pure hell on both US coasts. They save one of their largest nukes for the Brits.
5. London ceases to exist.
6. China, Iran, and India enter the war to assist Russia.
7. End of the world as we know it.
Cut to Wooden Ships for the real ending.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AdiuqQ7xm30
Hint. Read about what Russia did to Grozny after getting frustrated and feeling overwhelmed.
I wish that less violent way out was available but I think...no time.
We were at St Nicholas in Seattle spending the day after liturgy. All of the kids were running around playing.
Mine came to me and asked if they could have candy.
I told them, no, I didn’t think they needed any candy.
I didn’t know it had been offered to them.
In under five minutes a large Babushka arrived in front of me. She said “Your kids cannot have any candy?!!!” In a booming Russian accented voice.
And they had candy.
That misses who owns all that debt. That is who gets wiped out, and it’s not the USA.
I'd like to know if there is even one person in the land still happy about voting for Biden...
India and china and iran are not going to go to war to support Putin’s invasion.
You can replenish the weapons but you can’t replenish the troops.
China does not recognize Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian territories. For them, Crimea, as well as the recently annexed four territories of Novoróssiya are still Ukraine.
Putin’s quirky logic that says Kosovo can’t vote for a breakout, but Crimea can, is too advanced for China.
China naturally projects the Crimea precedent on their Taiwan situation. Putin says, “people voted for breaking with Ukraine and joining us.” Can PRC go along with this? Can they accept that Taiwan jumps at the opportunity and vote for a breakout, too?
Of course not.
As for your, Marmema, fantasy of nukes, that would push China even further.
a worldwide chain reaction of nuclear proliferation is right around the corner. PRC couldn’t care less if Germans and the Nordics get their nukes in 2023 or 2024. But Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan going nuclear would totally re-arrange everything right at their doorstep. The Americans get a giant stick to hang over the Chinese head: join us in kicking Russia out of the Security Council, or we walk out of the non-proliferation pact.
China wants Putin to stop the war and retreat back to 2021 borders
Two different wars. You know nothing about these cultures or the behaviors prior to the wars.
Actually three. I was over there in those days.
Calling the Russian military inept is a joke.
They are simply being much kinder to Ukraine.
Putin has softened up.
Not retreat. Where did you get that idea from?
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