Posted on 03/30/2024 3:58:42 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Russia cannot defeat Ukraine or the West - and will likely lose - if the West mobilizes its resources to resist the Kremlin. The West’s existing and latent capability dwarfs that of Russia. The combined gross domestic product (GDP) of NATO countries, non-NATO European Union states, and our Asian allies is over $63 trillion.[1] The Russian GDP is on the close order of $1.9 trillion.[2] Iran and North Korea add little in terms of materiel support. China is enabling Russia, but it is not mobilized on behalf of Russia and is unlikely to do so.[3] If we lean in and surge, Russia loses.
The notion that the war is unwinnable because of Russia’s dominance is a Russian information operation, which gives us a glimpse of the Kremlin’s real strategy and only real hope of success. The Kremlin must get the United States to the sidelines, allowing Russia to fight Ukraine in isolation and then proceed to Moscow’s next targets, which Russia will also seek to isolate. The Kremlin needs the United States to choose inaction and embrace the false inevitability that Russia will prevail in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s center of gravity is his ability to shape the will and decisions of the West, Ukraine, and Russia itself. The Russian strategy that matters most, therefore, is not Moscow’s warfighting strategy, but rather the Kremlin’s strategy to cause us to see the world as it wishes us to see it and make decisions in that Kremlin-generated alternative reality that will allow Russia to win in the real world.
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The Rooskies will bury us?
[In BS]
Maybe they can get H->! elected yet.
.....Russia should ....support the isolationist tendency in the US, saluting with favor the limitation of US geopolitical interests to the American continent...... Aleksandr Dugin, as quoted by James D. Heiser .
"Men are born ignorant but not stupid. They are made stupid by watching YouTube videos." .. with apologies to Bertrand Russell
Straight from the Top Warmongers
“Russia cannot defeat Ukraine or the West - AND WILL LIKELY LOSE - if the West mobilizes and blah blah blah.
Probably true
But what will happen if Russia loses?
The Russians have told us, repeatedly, calmly and precisely.
They will start an atomic war.
Which would probaly kill over 200 million Americans.
But Globalism and our LBTGQMAP agenda is well worth our Ekites risking 200 million deaths
ISW analysis= worthless.
Katastrophic Kagan Klan
Yeah cuz winning Asian land wars is in our long term national interest [/sarc]. You are a strategic fool. Asia ain’t our problem. The threats to our sea lines of communication are.. Tell me how we are going to deal with that after years of malinvestment in straightening out the Middle East.
Precisely.
It’s a border war between two corrupt countries. I don’t care about either.
That said, I’m done with NATO. We need to get out. All they do is blow money and blow up people.
“Perception manipulation is one of the Kremlin’s core capabilities “
Do you think they’re better at it than our own corrupt government? When does our own corruption prevent us from being ‘right”?
No need for a “peace deal” if Russia had just stayed within its own borders
* like every other country in Europe somehow manages to do ...
But Russia didn’t, so you admit there’s a need for a peace deal?
Bankrupt countries such as USA are better served to avoid engaging in foreign wars. When debt exceeds GDP, it is best to get own house in order first. And protect our own borders before worrying about Ukraine’s borders.
Lol...you know absolutely nothing about European history, do you? Take a class.
How many European countries have invaded their neighbors in the last 20 years, genius?
Russia has invaded 4 countries in that time
The United States invaded Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq in the last 25 years
Sounds like a bunch of Hopium…..and realization the West simply made a huge mistake trying to advance up to Russia’s borders through a proxy, the gig is up.
Ukraine is depleted in every sector, relying 100 percent on Hopium and western welfare. I don’t believe in Unicorns, Vlad still holds all the cards.
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