Posted on 09/12/2023 4:01:37 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
If you think, like Elon Musk, that instead of fighting, Ukraine and Russia “should agree to a truce,” the recent interview with General Andrey Mordvichev, one of Russia’s top commanders in Ukraine, should give you pause.
Asked about the war’s expected duration, he said the quiet part out loud: There is still “plenty of time.”
According to him, “If we are talking about Eastern Europe, which we will have to, of course then it will be longer.”
In other words, the Kremlin is in the conflict for the long haul.
Not only it is committed, as Russian President Vladimir Putin himself stated on numerous occasions, to the destruction of Ukraine’s statehood, but its ambitions extend beyond Ukraine, encompassing Moldova and Georgia as well as our NATO allies in the Baltic states and Poland.
None of this is news to Eastern Europeans.
As the late former president of Poland Lech Kaczynski noted in 2008, after Russia attacked Georgia, “Today Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine, the Baltic States the day after tomorrow, and then perhaps the time will come for my country, Poland.”
America’s self-styled realists who believe a compromise can be reached with Putin — perhaps peace in exchange for some territory and promise of Ukraine’s neutrality — have a hopelessly unrealistic, naïve understanding of the Kremlin’s thinking.
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Wacking the hornets nest are we ?
Who is this “we” kemosabe
This general must be poking fun at Putin.
This must be a very long-term plan.
One day you claim Russia can’t move past the Dunbas, and the next day you have Putin standing in Berlin. More PropAgenda from globalist swines.
Hah hah. Europe should just give up. They have no military. They are already commies so not much will change.
But a truce would be useful. It would give Europe time to rearm.
putin thought no one would care.
if he wins,
he’ll probably think with his next acquisition,
no one will dare.
We’ve been listening to “The Russians are Coming” crap since the psychotic DC deep-staters first told us Trump was giving secrets to Putin and hired hookers in Moscow to pee on Obama’s bed
Please stop spewing your garbage. Its pathetic
We’ve been listening to “The Russians are Coming” crap since the psychotic DC deep-staters first told us Trump was giving secrets to Putin and hired hookers in Moscow to pee on Obama’s bed
Please stop spewing your garbage. Its pathetic
If Putin was smart, he should have left Ukraine alone. And went after the Baltics. I doubt that NATO would have done anything.
I think if Russia has all it can handle just to take and hold the Donbas, NATO countries can sleep well enough.
Yo! Vlad, not a good idea.
Trust me.
5.56mm
More total laughable BS from BS Central.
see?
yet more evidence of why NATO is still needed ...
because Russia continues to be a threatening menace to every European country
Complete BS.
I remember the Vietnam War where our guys were fighting the battles that the South Vietnamese soldiers didn’t want to fight. Just sayin’.
It was always next.
They’ve been telegraphing that for quite some time now.
People just haven’t been paying attention.
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