Voluntarily limiting Russia's special operation was done for the right reasons related to humanitarian and political goals, but it unwittingly prevented the military success of this campaign upon which those two aforementioned objectives’ success is dependent, thus making last weekend’s outcome inevitable.
All Andrew/Russia/Putin's views on this depend on the idea that it's only the US and Russia that have legitimate interests here. The rest of Europe and Ukraine itself has a say in all this. They live next to a country with lots of nuclear bombs and can quite reasonably want to defend against this. There's also the possibility of Iran getting nuclear weapons and they can quite reasonably want to defend against that. Ukraine is their neighbour too and it's quite reasonable for them to form whatever alliances they want with each other.
If Russia respects the borders as they've been since the USSR fell, and doesn't bother anyone, no one will bother Russia. In fact, other countries have bent over backwards to accommodate Russia - pipelines making them reliant on Ru gas is not something you build to a country you plan to attack. They could become a prosperous, sensible nation and get along with everyone.
The funny thing is, Western people generally like and feel warmly towards Russian people. At least before this debacle....
I think it's also worth noting that here that Western Europe as a bloc is massively bigger than Russia in terms of population, GDP and GDP per head and is far more technologically advanced. If the US weren't involved it would spend more on defence, particularly nuclear deterrence... Russia is struggling with Ukraine, how do you. think it would do against Poland? Let alone Germany, France, Italy and the UK.
Put simply, Russia is demanding to a more powerful neighbour that it be given special treatment because it has nuclear weapons and just might be insane enough to use them.
So, the Kharkov Feint brings us one major step closer to a general war.
Putn won't get the kind of victory he wanted but Joe Biden won't get the kind of war he can win with lots of money, HIMARS, satellites and drones, either.
IN fact, Joe is $31 trilion in debt, inflation has doubled our cost of living and most of America is way below A1 if Joe could evern get anybody worth training to enlist.
Joe is probably counting our oh, so loyal Afghan Interpreters and Illegal Immirants-maybe a service-for-citizenship deal?
Ha! Oh, yeah! That's just what they all came to America for, as wellas Europe.
I think PUtin was trying to avoid all this but we can look forward to a world ruled by China, I guess.
All Andrew/Russia/Putin's views on this depend on the idea that it's only the US and Russia that have legitimate interests here. The rest of Europe and Ukraine itself has a say in all this. They live next to a country with lots of nuclear bombs and can quite reasonably want to defend against this. There's also the possibility of Iran getting nuclear weapons and they can quite reasonably want to defend against that. Ukraine is their neighbour too and it's quite reasonable for them to form whatever alliances they want with each other.
If Russia respects the borders as they've been since the USSR fell, and doesn't bother anyone, no one will bother Russia. In fact, other countries have bent over backwards to accommodate Russia - pipelines making them reliant on Ru gas is not something you build to a country you plan to attack. They could become a prosperous, sensible nation and get along with everyone.
The funny thing is, Western people generally like and feel warmly towards Russian people. At least before this debacle....
I think it's also worth noting that here that Western Europe as a bloc is massively bigger than Russia in terms of population, GDP and GDP per head and is far more technologically advanced. If the US weren't involved it would spend more on defence, particularly nuclear deterrence... Russia is struggling with Ukraine, how do you. think it would do against Poland? Let alone Germany, France, Italy and the UK.
Put simply, Russia is demanding to a more powerful neighbour that it be given special treatment because it has nuclear weapons and just might be insane enough to use them.
That's most likely coming.
So, the Kharkov Feint brings us one major step closer to a general war.
Putn won't get the kind of victory he wanted but Joe Biden won't get the kind of war he can win with lots of money, HIMARS, satellites and drones, either.
IN fact, Joe is $31 trilion in debt, inflation has doubled our cost of living and most of America is way below A1 if Joe could evern get anybody worth training to enlist.
Joe is probably counting our oh, so loyal Afghan Interpreters and Illegal Immirants-maybe a service-for-citizenship deal?
Ha! Oh, yeah! That's just what they all came to America for, as wellas Europe.
I think PUtin was trying to avoid all this but we can look forward to a world ruled by China, I guess.
If russia increases this into a larger war, it's just going to mean more russians for us to kill.
That's a good thing :).