Kirill Budanov sounds like an ordinary alcoholic who urges his friend to drink one more bottle of vodka before getting into his car to drive home. Anybody from Poland who crosses the Russian/Ukraine border – regardless what he calls himself – is not thinking straight. I am fairly convinced that Poland will not fall for this one.
I'm not. We go through this charade with every escalation. "No way, are you nuts!" To "Well, maybe..." to "You first!" to "Maybe just the tip...".to "Let's go together".to "Anyone Who Opposes This Is. A Tool Of Putin!"
The domino theory, debunked in 1975, has been resurrected. It's so silly. It requires us to believe that Putin WANTS to have an expensive, occupying army in western Ukraine, Poland, and no doubt the Baltic States. It assumes he learned nothing from his experience in East Germany in the final years of the Cold War.
If Putin has proved anything about himself, it is that he learns from mistakes, both his and those of others. That certainly includes the ones that almost led to nuclear war in the past.
The Balts, the Poles, Ukrainians living in Kiev or Lvov, don't have to worry about being conquered by the Russians. To their credit, they have proven they will make any occupier regret occupying them. It's not worth it. Perhaps Putin knows this better than they do.
I was worried that the Poles would invade Belarus until Russia gave Belarus some Oreshnik.
As everything in Germany flips back to "normal" after the election, I suspect the same would happen to Poland, Romania, and Ukraine after their respective elections. For any wars with ideology involved but particularly when civil war is an attribute, no matter whether it is the Finnish Civil War, the Chinese Civil War, the Russian Civil War, or this Russia-Ukraine War (which also has attributes of civil wars) it seems they all have to fight to the bitter end with one side unconditional surrender, totally destroyed and dispersed, or driven across a large natural obstacle. Dneiper could have been that large natural obstacle, but modern technology makes it much less likely so.
Kirill Budanov sounds like an ordinary alcoholic who urges his friend to drink one more bottle of vodka before getting into his car to drive home. Anybody from Poland who crosses the Russian/Ukraine border – regardless what he calls himself – is not thinking straight. I am fairly convinced that Poland will not fall for this one.
LOL that was a very funny way to put it!
I'm not. We go through this charade with every escalation. "No way, are you nuts!" To "Well, maybe..." to "You first!" to "Maybe just the tip...".to "Let's go together".to "Anyone Who Opposes This Is. A Tool Of Putin!"
This never was about Ukraine or Ukrainians.
The domino theory, debunked in 1975, has been resurrected. It's so silly. It requires us to believe that Putin WANTS to have an expensive, occupying army in western Ukraine, Poland, and no doubt the Baltic States. It assumes he learned nothing from his experience in East Germany in the final years of the Cold War.
If Putin has proved anything about himself, it is that he learns from mistakes, both his and those of others. That certainly includes the ones that almost led to nuclear war in the past.
The Balts, the Poles, Ukrainians living in Kiev or Lvov, don't have to worry about being conquered by the Russians. To their credit, they have proven they will make any occupier regret occupying them. It's not worth it. Perhaps Putin knows this better than they do.
Of course, nobody seriously thinks that Russia is planning to bust into Poland, just because.
It's a pretext for NATO to escalate, nothing more. Of course, it's a pretext. Doesn't matter, if it gets the intended results.
I was worried that the Poles would invade Belarus until Russia gave Belarus some Oreshnik.
As everything in Germany flips back to "normal" after the election, I suspect the same would happen to Poland, Romania, and Ukraine after their respective elections. For any wars with ideology involved but particularly when civil war is an attribute, no matter whether it is the Finnish Civil War, the Chinese Civil War, the Russian Civil War, or this Russia-Ukraine War (which also has attributes of civil wars) it seems they all have to fight to the bitter end with one side unconditional surrender, totally destroyed and dispersed, or driven across a large natural obstacle. Dneiper could have been that large natural obstacle, but modern technology makes it much less likely so.