Posted on 04/22/2024 12:53:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
If ol’ Vlad is really worried, he can always do the right thing for once in his life and remove his army from Ukraine.
Russia is willing to fight an existential war to keep Ukraine as a vassal state, free of NATO.
Is NATO willing to fight an existential war with Russia to acquire Ukraine?
Not likely.
Avoiding nuclear war would be one, if he is so worried.
He doesn’t strike me as the type of man that would cut and run....................
You don't know how it works. If one weapon is used in theater, all will be used everywhere, least the retaliatory strikes escalate.
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“Beware of the Military-Industrial Complex.” - Dwight Eisenhower....................
True. But I think Russia might have been hoping that this thing could come to an end somehow. The globalist crooks want to keep it going indefinitely because of the kickbacks it generates.
Of course, a negotiated settlement would require cooperation from both Russia and Ukraine and I don’t see either one acting rationally or reasonably.
No, he’s a KGB thug; always has been, always will be. The only solution to people like him is their removal from Planet Earth. There’s really nothing new about this.
The worst aspect of human debris like Biden being in positions of power is that they embolden pieces of human debris like Putin.
He's not worried. He's lying, and engaging in Nuclear Blackmail. Russians have been doing that ever since they developed their first atomic bomb.
Before you propose that have you ever given thought to the fact that South Korea needs to be able to resist a North Korean invasion themselves?
Just askin'.
Tell me about it.
Oil spikes and Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, Ukraine in 2022-
we need to stop poking the bear!!!!
NATO is infringing!!!!! We really are not the global defender of the free world by treaty or not.
Putin is playing 8D chess!!! Rubles are still on massive sale, 70% off and all it takes is a credit card and 15mins to sign up for an account on Forex.
Yes, a bully senses weakness and will take full advantage.
Appeasement never works.......................
It is hilarious that you think you know what Russia needs to do.
Why didn't we back off in 1991? We won our war, I helped. The evil empire fell but our Neocons couldn't settle for that. We had to punish the Russians for ever existing.
Our greed and hubris has destroyed us.
In fact, Biden and Crew would love nothing more than to see Russian tanks in Kiev, before the election.
They only care about Ukraine to the extent that it helps them politically.
I thought that was Fourex?...............
Whatever you do, don’t get on a zoom meeting with John Bolton. He’s doin’ the Toobin over this article.
Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands et.al. have all relinquished their empires. The USA voluntarily gave the Philippines full independence after WW2. Only Moscow refuses to accept that the era of empires is OVER, and demands to re-construct theirs by force of arms, at the expense of the peoples who were finally freed in 1991.
This of course means nothing to Russophiles. As far as they Russians are concerned, might makes right, period, end of story. Has been so since the Mongol period ended. Which is why western nations oppose Russia, why NATO still exists, and why more nations in Russia's proximity have asked to join NATO since 2022. ASKED to join. The NATO charter does not allow it to force itself on anyone. (Another lie they keep promoting....that NATO was expanding itself into Ukraine. Any and all contacts with NATO were/are at Ukraine's instigation. Had to be. The events of 2014 and 2022 confirmed their fears. And everybody else's.
Easy way out of the crisis is for Putin to cease occupation of all Ukrainian territory. If he won't, whack the bear on the nose until he does.
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