Posted on 02/07/2023 8:37:34 PM PST by Cronos
Anything coming out of the Atlantic Council is NATO talking.
One who puts the interests of American citizens first, not moralizing abstractions, multinational institutions or foreign nations.
“The scale of this war is out of proportion with all of our recent thinking,” said Cavoli, who is also head of US European Command. “But it is real and we must contend with it.”
One lesson is the importance of an adequate defense industrial base capable of providing the necessary equipment and supplies to satisfy the voracious appetite of large-scale, high-intensity warfare. The US, Russia, and Europe are already scrambling to ramp up production of artillery shells after letting their munitions stockpiles and factories run down after the Cold War.
“Production capacity remains vital, absolutely vital,” Cavoli said. “A healthy and elastic defense industrial base is just as important” as the number of troops.
Cavoli also took aim at the belief — until recently touted by Germany and other countries — that soft power has become a substitute for military power.
“Hard power is a reality,” Cavoli said, adding that diplomacy, cyber-warfare, and economic strength are important, “but the great irreducible feature of warfare is hard power, and we have to be good at it.”
“If the other guy shows up with a tank, you better have a tank,” Cavoli said.
Interestingly, Cavoli pointed to Ukraine’s surprising battlefield successes as evidence that “precision can beat mass.” But there’s a catch: It takes time for quality to beat quantity, and “that time is usually bought with space.
LOL
oops, loss of credibility...
Where did you get the idea it would take three days?
A typical, hate filled response to Patriots from someone who is a pure degenerate who has long become anti-American, as most Putinists openly now admit. Would that Americans loved their country the way Ukrainians love theirs.
Atlantic Council is to NATO as Sinn Fein was to the IRA.
.....”The coup insisted that the Russian language and culture in the east had to be purged and destroyed”......
US/Nato wanted Donbass - rich resources there also that Kiev wants.
Yep....
Anything coming out of Caww is Russian propaganda talking since at least 2014--he was even still trying to muddy the waters back then over the culprit of MH17 like the moral degenerate he is!
what, specifically, are the interests of ALL American citizens?
or are you speaking for yourself?
what is an example of a moralizing abstraction?
democracy? helping Turkey and Syria after a devastating earthquake?
what, specifically, do you mean?
There you are! Always out to troll your boat on FR.
Which, of course, no independent observer in the area supports. The OSCE in fact reported the opposite--it was Russia attacking Ukraine with impunity for years.
But that doesn't stop DesertRhino from repeating the lie for the 100th time or so.
INB4 you begin to obsessively telling me how much you are ignoring my posts by spamming "I'm ignoring you! Nyah nyah nyah nyah!"
Huge fire broke out at a US drone factory in Latvia. The factory was supplying drones to NATO countries and Ukraine. (Video at link)
https://twitter.com/thatdayin1992/status/1623027874759381081?cxt=HHwWssG4-ZfQk4YtAAAA
Yes, anything that provides anything of value to a foreign state or nation. Because the US has air bases in Turkey offering aid to Turkey makes practical sense, although I would prefer the US uses the quake to remove all US military persons and equipment from Turkey. For, Syria, not a penny in aid.;Resisting aggression’ is a moralizing abstraction. What difference does it make to a real American if one foreign state attacks another. It is the foreigners problems, not ours. If one has a private interest in a foreign quarrel then spend ones wealth on it or volunteer to participate. It has nothing to do with people living in this country. If you believe the property, wealth. and lives of other Americans should be expended in some foreign quarrel than you are either a hypen or deluded and in no case a true American.
This whole article is nothing but laughable propaganda.
you are entitled to your opinion
I don’t agree with you
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