Putin could not win a war with a relatively poor and militarily weak country on his doorstep, to he is going to up the ante by engaging the U.S. and Britain. Even Putin is not that insane.
Would the West chance a larger nuclear war with Russia over the Ukraine?
I vote no, but our elite idiots who helped create this mess in the first place don’t really care what you and I think.
There is no “retirement” plan for Putin or his generals. You either maintain power or you are dead and penniless because your very existence is a threat to the new guy(s) AND your wealth is an easy populist target that wins support from the peasantry.
They WILL use nuclear weapons if it means they survive. I don’t know how/why more people can’t see this. I can’t understand this oft-repeated scenario where “Putin is not that crazy” so he will somehow just peacefully step down and give a farewell address and shuffle off with his hundreds of billions in wealth?
I said it from Day 1 - I cannot see a scenario where Putin survives defeat in the Ukraine. The same is true for his inner circle of oligarchs AND his military leadership. He might survive the Wagner uprising, but the Chef is not an idiot and he knows better than all of us how soft the underbelly is in Moscow. He has bet his life on this too.
How many United States' taxpayer dollars/personnel/materiel has the US funneled to Ukraine to fight "their" war?
I forget.
Remind me.
Obviously you have zero understanding of how few Russian soldiers are involved. Ukraine has not yet faced Russia at war because of a self imposed Special Operation. When 500K Russian soldiers join the conflict it will be war.
Biden is essentially going to face a classic humiliation j u st as he and the DNC have done to the US in VN and Afghanistan... when DNC let American allies be overrun. The RNC is preparing to end the American involvement in Ukraine. Impeached Joe is going be putty in the RNCs hands.