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.
(Excerpt) Read more at understandingwar.org ...
The elites need to get President Trump back in office if they want to make Russia leave Ukraine. Wars are expensive. The President will make Russia go broke. How? By unleashing American oil and gas production. Small percentage changes in global supply cause big price fluctuations. Russia can’t afford the downward ones Trump would inflict on them. Putin will run out of money and leave Ukraine with his tail between his legs if we get the President back in office.
There is no Russian strategy for success.
By invading Ukraine and continuing unabated to commit war crimes against the citizens, Russia lost the favor of the world. Russia is now the pariah. Russia has no friends that matter.
Russia has entered a coalition of losers that includes Iran and China.
Rather than success, Russia is withering on an increasingly defective vine
ISW analysis= worthless.
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Exactly, ISW is owned by one of Nuland’s relatives….that says it all.
“ The Western Press continues to report only the propaganda from the NEOCON mouthpiece, * the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which is run by Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law. * I have warned that they were trying to start war BEFORE the election, and the two main targets in time were May and July. Be very careful of any media that uses the ISW as its source. It was Victoria Nuland’s husband, Robert Kagan, who wrote the Washington Post piece calling Trump a dictator because his wife has been in every administration EXCEPT Trump’s.
Victoria Nuland is really of Ukrainian Jewish descent. Her family changed their name to try to hide their Jewish ethnic background. She really would be Nudelman, not Nuland. She is actually the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor Sherwin B. Nuland, who changed his surname from Nudelman to Nuland.
She retained her family name, Nuland, to perhaps further hide her Jewish/Ukrainian connection by marrying Robert Kagan. Victoria speaks Russian, French, and some Chinese. Hiding her Jewish/Ukrainian background is critical. Her father was raised by parents who were Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. Hence, her grandparents were Jewish Meyer Nudelman (1889-1958) and Vitsche Lutsky (1893-1941). This explains why Nuland has been a public proponent for Ukraine to wage war against Russia.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/beware-the-ides-of-may/
Russia has inferior weapons, inferior training, inferior tactics, and inferior logistics
All the fundamentals of modern war are against Russia - it cannot win this
Thus, the furious Russian dis-information & propaganda campaign we see now on FR
Oh, so now you’re limiting it to the last 20 years are you? Nothing like moving the goalposts, eh genius?
So much for my suggestion that you start your education with the Hundred Years War.
You are delusional.
The concept that all these psychopaths (WEF, Western elites & leaders, CCP leaders, Putin Inc, etc.) are all motivated and working toward the same goal (world domination and self-enrichment) seems to elude most folks. The only variation is exactly who winds up on top. A final solution is really all that will save humanity.
Gotta look at a map again if you think Ukraine is in Asia. And yes, winning European land wars is absolutely in our interest. And we're pretty good at it!
In this case, other boys are doing the fighting they just want us to send them ammo. Which we should do!
Another geostrategic imbecile raises his head.
You’re the guy who thinks Ukraine is in Asia, right?
Glad to learn from you how successful all the western backed counter offensives have been in pushin Putin back to the Urals and freeing western Russia for WEF style democracy. You are choking on your own propaganda.
Hey fool, where does the Eurasian Steppe end?
Imbecile.
The Eurasian steppe ends in Austria. You think Austria is part of Asia? You’re an idiot.
Just to remind you of the reality, Russia isn’t.
The Globalist Boogieman defense for arguments doesn’t fly
Another moronic post.
Thank goodness Kagan, the ISW, DC and London are only telling us the truth! They never lie and manipulate. /s
Glad you aren’t responsible for defense strategy. The fact that a war in Ukraine plays into the strengths of an Asian land power, Russia, while drawing off the resources we need to execute defense of our very threatened maritime interests is exactly why we should not be there. It’s the strategic stupidity of the globalists who want to use the US as their enforcer starting with the elder Bush.
Meanwhile you are fixated on semantics showing you to be the imbecile I called you.
Try writing a sentence in English with a subject, a verb, and an object.
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