You’ll never guess who thinks Ukraine is worth fighting for.
The Ukrainians.
While the West simultaneously whines about Vlad and loads up on Russian natural gas, the good citizens of the UKR are putting their blood where their polling data is.
Fair to say this fight was unexpected. I did have a flash on Wednesday - did the Russians really expect to take Ukraine with 30,000 soldiers, a force smaller than the NYPD? - but I assumed that the consensus had to be right.
Maybe not.
The tactical problem - from Russia’s point of view - is twofold. The Ukrainians are fighting harder than Russia expected, and Russia’s preparations appear to have been shoddy, premised on plans for a very fast and easy fight.
Tanks without gasoline are paperweights, which is why the US Army spends so much time and money on logistics. Say what you like about the Pentagon, but it would not let its armored vehicles run out of gas three days into an invasion.
And so with every hour and night that passes, Russia’s overwhelming superiority looks more and more mythical - giving the Ukrainians reason to wonder if they can beat the bear, or at least do enough damage to him to send him back over the border.
This turn of events is both heartening and EXTREMELY dangerous…
I believe 0% of Western propaganda concerning this war. They lie about everything, why should we believe them concerning this? Bob isn’t in Baghdad anymore apparently.
It's dangerous because China is watching intently--and helping under the table. If this Ukrainian takeover is successful, Taiwan will be next. Make no mistake: Brandon has emboldened the 2 countries that should be our biggest enemies into acting like allies against US! Godspeed to the Ukrainians, for they show far more bravery than the vast majority of our own citizens when it comes to standing up against tyranny.
Alex, you know for the last two years, almost all reporting by the main steam media was WRONG or manipulated into falsehood about COVID. Why do you believe all the sudden what the media reports on Ukraine and Russia is correct and accurate? I almost think the media is saying something totally opposite of the reality of what is really going on.
I wish USA citizens had their passion and courage. I still love my country but I don’t like the direction it’s seems to be going. Ukraine love their freedom and here too many want to give it away to the left.
I expected it because I knew the people of Ukraine would not lay down, even against overwhelming odds. Unfortunately the fierce resistance in Ukraine will face a greater onslaught from Putin and Kyiv will see the worse attack of all. President Zelensky declined to leave saying he need more ammunition, not a ride. Worse, too many are stuck with domestic politics myopia and completely are unable to get past navel gazing to understand KGB thug Putin has waited to attack Ukraine again. He choose this time due to the weakness in the West and the handlers of Biden showing complete incompetence in the Afghanistan debacle.
Let's keep Biden away from doing absolutely anything. Everything he touches turns to shit. Biden would have accidently armed our soldiers with bananas.
It’s called The Fog of War for a reason. All of the reports about what is happened or just happened have to be looked at with a heavy dose of skepticism. It may not be true. However, I hope that the brave people of Ukraine beats bs k this aggression from Putin forces. Putin is not supported by his own people!
I've counted four examples of imagery and videos being false (from a disasters a few years ago to excerpts from a movie). I'd be very careful about the news you're seeing. Most certainly a battle has begun but beyond that, I'm. not sure I trust all of what we're seeing.
Good! Ukraine should've handed out tens of millions of guns & tens of billions of rounds to its citizens years ago, with training. Heavy weapons too. Rulers who don't trust their people with the means of mutual defense don't deserve to rule. Sadly, the people pay the price.
However...Sorry, not our problem. Enough already! Not worth risking nuclear war over. Not worth another world nanny $10 trillion intervention and more American lives wasted.
Nor would this be happening if Trump was still in the White House. Don't forget corrupt Ukraine helped demonize him while protecting Joe & Humper Xiden. So we're stuck with corrupt stupid self-indulgent perverted pansies Biden-Harris-DemComs, a sensitive tranny military, a wrecked economy after years of covid hysteria, discharging warriors for refusing vaccines, a war on domestic oil production & independence, and the idiotic way Xiden fled Afghanistan and left weapons & people behind. All these smoke signals encouraged Putin's invasion & aggression.
It is beyond me why anyone would believe that the Ukrainians, a nation that was almost anihilated by mass starvation by the Russians within living memory, would "not put up a fight" when they are invaded again... by the Russians. That's like thinking that Israelis would not put up a fight if invaded by an army of Nazis or the Irish would not put up a fight if invaded by the Brits. Who can be so naive as to not understand the depth of historical hatreds?
"I need ammunition, not a ride." Wow. I don't think a more concise, inspiring one liner could possibly have been uttered in the current circumstances. I guess in his previous life as a comedian, he had a little experience with one liners.
Who says tanks are running out of gas? I don't think the Russians want to use tanks within the city...just my opinion. They want to take the city with as little damage as possible to the infrastructure.
The real question is why does the Ukrainian dictator wait till the 11th hour to arm his citizens? Could it be if they were armed sooner, they would take over their own corrupt government?
This is such wishful thinking and as such is understandable. But it took 3 weeks for the US to take Baghdad from a far inferior Iraqi army. 6 days of fighting for the city itself.
How come no one was concerned about Ukraine shelling ukrainians for the last 8 years? Since when is it a good idea to show support for the most corrupt government in Europe? This is all the result of a US/NATO backed coup that cost taxpayers over 5 billion dollars. Is Ukraine's puppet president/actor/comedian worth 5 billion dollars? Let's just call it another regime change fail for the west and let Russia have Ukraine back.
Let’s remember that Russia killed approximately 2,000,000 Afghan citizens and lost 15,000 troops before they lost and left. What will the cost be in Ukraine ? Putin is a ruthless bastard.
When I first heard about the buildup, my first thought was that 130,000 troops are not nearly enough to take and occupy all of Ukraine. That's why I thought the Russians would slice off Donetsk and Luhansk only. Oh well, I'm not the only one that was wrong about that.
However, one has to wonder why the Russians have only committed 30,000 of those troops to the fight. Double that number and it may be over by now. Maybe Vlad is thinking the same thing I am about taking and holding Ukraine?
I've heard some rumblings that both the Ukrainians and the U.S. are warming to the idea of a neutral Ukraine (read, no NATO) if it gets the Russians to back off. Maybe that is why the Russians have committed less than their full complement? Maybe Vlad is just trying to force a result he couldn't get diplomatically? Stands to reason. And if that is where we end up, then JoeBiden and Zelensky will look even worse, since they will have ended up where they could have gotten without killing a lot of people and breaking a lot of stuff.
I would suggest you look up "The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect". First coined by the late Michael Crichton. What follows is his explanation.
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an
article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You
read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or
the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing
cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then
turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was
somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page,
and forget what you know.”
Combine that with a quite long Twitter thread I found from Steve Deace a few weeks back and you will start to understand why you can't believe ANYTHING coming from ANYONE in authority as well as almost ALL MAJOR MEDIA. You have to search out sources you can trust, like this one. However, even Alex is off base when it come to IVM and Dr. Robert Malone.
I would STRONGLY URGE each of you to go to Steve Deace's Twitter feed and find that thread. It basically says that we have to QUESTION EVERYTHING you see in the media or anywhere else for that matter. We are BEING LIED TO actively.
We are WAY PAST THE TIME WHEN THE MEDIA IS SIMPLY BIASED. They are actively trying to mislead us. Same with the government. Same with health authorities. And on and on.
Some of the commentors are skeptical of what is being reported, especially those "nationalists" who, sadly, can't grasp this is Ukraine's nationalism a fight of survival against Putin's imperial power. Those who know Ukraine's people, who know it's people, land, language, and culture are not surprised by this shocking level of resistance to the Russian invasion. Anyone in this thread can find numerous twitter feeds from Ukrainian civilians and soldiers, of both Ukrainian and Russian ethnic origin. One can get on the ground video journalist reporting from independent Ukrainian news outlets. Over and over, one is astounded at the bravery and defiant opposition. And yes, many of those show the carnage of armored encounters, wrecked convoys, and self-sacrifice of Ukrainian patriots. (Last transmission from Ukraine's Spider Island: "Russian Warship: Go Fuck Yourself").
While the actual claims and counter claims of losses are likely off by half (a rule of thumb) all agree that this kind of grassroots resistance and their use of effective anti-tank attacks were not how it was supposed to happen.
Of course, in the end one knows that the vastly greater military resources of Russia will grind down their victims - just as Stalin's 1940 attack on Finland was initially a shocking drubbing of Soviet forces. But Ukrainian nationalism won't die, the fury against the "brotherly nation" will be rooted in lore. There extremely brave President likely martyred by his refusal to evacuate.
Two difficulties here. First, Ukrainians are receiving no outside help. Cheering them on is encouraging lambs to march to slaughter. We don't have any skin in the game, so it's no skin off our backs. Second, if this becomes a longer, bloodier and more violent affair, this only plays into Putin's hands. The more brutal he and Russians appear, the more scared the next target of Russian aggression will be when Russia comes knocking.
Russia GDP is $1.65 trillion with 144 million people. Texas GDP is $1.84 trillion with 29 million people. I think Putin must have been looking at this invasion of Ukraine as necessary with the value of oil doubling since Old Joe took over. Ukraine is wealthy in natural resources. Knowing that the end of Putin is near as the 144 million will not accept a drop in their living standard when oil falls again... as it will.
Leaders who are facing defeat become the most dangerous in desperation to prevent defeat.
However, if Ukraine actually prevents Russia from prevailing, I wonder if the rest of the free world should jump in and crush the bear once and for all.
And then we should look toward the paper tiger of China for the same.
Ukrainians have been very brave especially their president. All this stuff about Ukraine being a dictatorship might have some truth, but Russia is must definitely a dictatorship and a cruel one at that, that has utterly crushed all opposition. I support Ukraine and wish them the best of luck if the defense of their homeland. I call of Western nations to impose much harder sanctions of Russia including oil. While declaring a state of emergency and pumping as much oil and gas here in the United States as possible (lift all restriction on pumping oil in our homeland).
The thing most people are not understanding about this is that it is SIEGE -- good old fashioned siege warfare.
So many people have been used to US tactics of shock-and-awe they don't understand that Putin has essentially surrounded the entire country and is laying siege. The goal was never a shock-and-awe capture. It's nice the Ukrainians are putting up a fight, but when their food and everything else runs out and they can neither leave nor return to the country -- they'll give up.
Alex, you are needed on a different front, not throwing out your credibility with hot takes based on propaganda.
Recon units entering cities, engaging in small arm fire and retreating is the operation that leads to intel and the larger city taking operation. It took three weeks for a WESTERN COALITION to take Baghdad, and six days to secure it. That is a smaller country with a much less well equipped and funded military. It was also after shock and awe that destroyed the countries infrastructure for years.
Western countries aren't coming to the rescue. Dumping in weapons will only cause more bloodshed (which western countries are ok with as long as Russia bleeds a little bit). The Gov't handing out AK's to civilians is disgusting. This isn't some life or death struggle for the citizenry, this is an armed conflict replacing one set of kleptocrats with another. It is in the peoples best interest to sit it out since the people who kept giving/selling Ukrainians weapons and dreams of EU/NATO partnership were all false hopes. Reality sucks, but ignore it at your own peril.
Ukraine was a backwater money skim for the elites. Right now it's a bleeding feed for Russians and Ukrainians, but will turn back to a money skim. For the US it is now the cause célèbre for all the administrations problems, a scape goat has been created to pivot off of covid.
We've also just screwed ourselves with the SWIFT action. We have no more leverage over Russia, except war. We've just freed them of any constraints up to that point.
Sadly, I no longer believe western governments or mainstream media. They have lied / manipulated / warped things for years, with Covid being the most recent … and egregious.
I’m not saying Putin is justified in what’s he’s doing. However, he has been clear about his opposition of NATO expansion into Ukraine for 15 years & he witnesses the disastrous “adventures” of the US & its allies in global wars, adds in a bit of debacle from Afghanistan withdrawal, to prompt this move. His bet is that citizens of the West no longer have appetite for war. And trust in their govts is now at an all time low (thanks again, Covid!)
And, most concerning of all - he’s also betting on Biden’s utter incompetence.
Truth - the first casualty of war.
All governments lie - the bigger the government the bigger the lie - and only a fool believes anything a proven compulsive liar says.
Question E.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. Always.
PS. this war has nothing to do with Ukraine. It is all about Russia and Germany.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/february/15/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany/
I believe 0% of Western propaganda concerning this war. They lie about everything, why should we believe them concerning this? Bob isn’t in Baghdad anymore apparently.
We might not run out of gas, but we handed the Taliban $85billion in functional arms and said “ooopps”
“Say what you like about the Pentagon, but it would not let its armored vehicles run out of gas three days into an invasion”
Not that fast. Brandon administration can do that. For sure.
It's dangerous because China is watching intently--and helping under the table. If this Ukrainian takeover is successful, Taiwan will be next. Make no mistake: Brandon has emboldened the 2 countries that should be our biggest enemies into acting like allies against US! Godspeed to the Ukrainians, for they show far more bravery than the vast majority of our own citizens when it comes to standing up against tyranny.
Alex, you know for the last two years, almost all reporting by the main steam media was WRONG or manipulated into falsehood about COVID. Why do you believe all the sudden what the media reports on Ukraine and Russia is correct and accurate? I almost think the media is saying something totally opposite of the reality of what is really going on.
I wish USA citizens had their passion and courage. I still love my country but I don’t like the direction it’s seems to be going. Ukraine love their freedom and here too many want to give it away to the left.
I expected it because I knew the people of Ukraine would not lay down, even against overwhelming odds. Unfortunately the fierce resistance in Ukraine will face a greater onslaught from Putin and Kyiv will see the worse attack of all. President Zelensky declined to leave saying he need more ammunition, not a ride. Worse, too many are stuck with domestic politics myopia and completely are unable to get past navel gazing to understand KGB thug Putin has waited to attack Ukraine again. He choose this time due to the weakness in the West and the handlers of Biden showing complete incompetence in the Afghanistan debacle.
Send David Frum, Uncle Joey with his son Hunter Biden to Ukraine.
Let's keep Biden away from doing absolutely anything. Everything he touches turns to shit. Biden would have accidently armed our soldiers with bananas.
It’s called The Fog of War for a reason. All of the reports about what is happened or just happened have to be looked at with a heavy dose of skepticism. It may not be true. However, I hope that the brave people of Ukraine beats bs k this aggression from Putin forces. Putin is not supported by his own people!
I've counted four examples of imagery and videos being false (from a disasters a few years ago to excerpts from a movie). I'd be very careful about the news you're seeing. Most certainly a battle has begun but beyond that, I'm. not sure I trust all of what we're seeing.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if UKR victorious!
Good! Ukraine should've handed out tens of millions of guns & tens of billions of rounds to its citizens years ago, with training. Heavy weapons too. Rulers who don't trust their people with the means of mutual defense don't deserve to rule. Sadly, the people pay the price.
However...Sorry, not our problem. Enough already! Not worth risking nuclear war over. Not worth another world nanny $10 trillion intervention and more American lives wasted.
Nor would this be happening if Trump was still in the White House. Don't forget corrupt Ukraine helped demonize him while protecting Joe & Humper Xiden. So we're stuck with corrupt stupid self-indulgent perverted pansies Biden-Harris-DemComs, a sensitive tranny military, a wrecked economy after years of covid hysteria, discharging warriors for refusing vaccines, a war on domestic oil production & independence, and the idiotic way Xiden fled Afghanistan and left weapons & people behind. All these smoke signals encouraged Putin's invasion & aggression.
It is beyond me why anyone would believe that the Ukrainians, a nation that was almost anihilated by mass starvation by the Russians within living memory, would "not put up a fight" when they are invaded again... by the Russians. That's like thinking that Israelis would not put up a fight if invaded by an army of Nazis or the Irish would not put up a fight if invaded by the Brits. Who can be so naive as to not understand the depth of historical hatreds?
"I need ammunition, not a ride." Wow. I don't think a more concise, inspiring one liner could possibly have been uttered in the current circumstances. I guess in his previous life as a comedian, he had a little experience with one liners.
Who says tanks are running out of gas? I don't think the Russians want to use tanks within the city...just my opinion. They want to take the city with as little damage as possible to the infrastructure.
The real question is why does the Ukrainian dictator wait till the 11th hour to arm his citizens? Could it be if they were armed sooner, they would take over their own corrupt government?
This is such wishful thinking and as such is understandable. But it took 3 weeks for the US to take Baghdad from a far inferior Iraqi army. 6 days of fighting for the city itself.
Amateurs talk about strategy; professionals talk about logistics
I am sure Biden is on top of the situation in his bunker in Delaware!
I wish we could help. I also wish Putin and Biden would kill each other.
How come no one was concerned about Ukraine shelling ukrainians for the last 8 years? Since when is it a good idea to show support for the most corrupt government in Europe? This is all the result of a US/NATO backed coup that cost taxpayers over 5 billion dollars. Is Ukraine's puppet president/actor/comedian worth 5 billion dollars? Let's just call it another regime change fail for the west and let Russia have Ukraine back.
Let’s remember that Russia killed approximately 2,000,000 Afghan citizens and lost 15,000 troops before they lost and left. What will the cost be in Ukraine ? Putin is a ruthless bastard.
Has anyone considered that perhaps a Russian victory would beat back the plans of the World Economic Forum and the Great Reset? Just a thought.
When I first heard about the buildup, my first thought was that 130,000 troops are not nearly enough to take and occupy all of Ukraine. That's why I thought the Russians would slice off Donetsk and Luhansk only. Oh well, I'm not the only one that was wrong about that.
However, one has to wonder why the Russians have only committed 30,000 of those troops to the fight. Double that number and it may be over by now. Maybe Vlad is thinking the same thing I am about taking and holding Ukraine?
I've heard some rumblings that both the Ukrainians and the U.S. are warming to the idea of a neutral Ukraine (read, no NATO) if it gets the Russians to back off. Maybe that is why the Russians have committed less than their full complement? Maybe Vlad is just trying to force a result he couldn't get diplomatically? Stands to reason. And if that is where we end up, then JoeBiden and Zelensky will look even worse, since they will have ended up where they could have gotten without killing a lot of people and breaking a lot of stuff.
I would suggest you look up "The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect". First coined by the late Michael Crichton. What follows is his explanation.
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an
article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You
read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or
the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing
cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then
turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was
somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page,
and forget what you know.”
Combine that with a quite long Twitter thread I found from Steve Deace a few weeks back and you will start to understand why you can't believe ANYTHING coming from ANYONE in authority as well as almost ALL MAJOR MEDIA. You have to search out sources you can trust, like this one. However, even Alex is off base when it come to IVM and Dr. Robert Malone.
I would STRONGLY URGE each of you to go to Steve Deace's Twitter feed and find that thread. It basically says that we have to QUESTION EVERYTHING you see in the media or anywhere else for that matter. We are BEING LIED TO actively.
We are WAY PAST THE TIME WHEN THE MEDIA IS SIMPLY BIASED. They are actively trying to mislead us. Same with the government. Same with health authorities. And on and on.
Good luck and God Speed.
Some of the commentors are skeptical of what is being reported, especially those "nationalists" who, sadly, can't grasp this is Ukraine's nationalism a fight of survival against Putin's imperial power. Those who know Ukraine's people, who know it's people, land, language, and culture are not surprised by this shocking level of resistance to the Russian invasion. Anyone in this thread can find numerous twitter feeds from Ukrainian civilians and soldiers, of both Ukrainian and Russian ethnic origin. One can get on the ground video journalist reporting from independent Ukrainian news outlets. Over and over, one is astounded at the bravery and defiant opposition. And yes, many of those show the carnage of armored encounters, wrecked convoys, and self-sacrifice of Ukrainian patriots. (Last transmission from Ukraine's Spider Island: "Russian Warship: Go Fuck Yourself").
While the actual claims and counter claims of losses are likely off by half (a rule of thumb) all agree that this kind of grassroots resistance and their use of effective anti-tank attacks were not how it was supposed to happen.
Of course, in the end one knows that the vastly greater military resources of Russia will grind down their victims - just as Stalin's 1940 attack on Finland was initially a shocking drubbing of Soviet forces. But Ukrainian nationalism won't die, the fury against the "brotherly nation" will be rooted in lore. There extremely brave President likely martyred by his refusal to evacuate.
I stand with Ukraine.
We don't know ANYTHING about this conflict we are just being told about it by the lying MSM. I hear from a Kiev resident that it is BS, a distraction.
Maybe Joe will bring in the Taliban to fight Russia in Ukraine. The Taliban is well armed. That way no U. S. troops will be involved.
The NEO-NAZIS in Ukraine are a tough bunch...backed by NATO/US puppets. Read up on the history of Ukraine in the last 10 years.
What is this all really about, seems tissue to me. This video gives one Possible explanation, they're not trying to kill civilians, they hit biolabs the 1st day. https://rumble.com/vvsq5l-ep-2711b-planned-long-agods-stronghold-and-bio-weapons-destroyedtrump-never.html
Two difficulties here. First, Ukrainians are receiving no outside help. Cheering them on is encouraging lambs to march to slaughter. We don't have any skin in the game, so it's no skin off our backs. Second, if this becomes a longer, bloodier and more violent affair, this only plays into Putin's hands. The more brutal he and Russians appear, the more scared the next target of Russian aggression will be when Russia comes knocking.
Warsaw Jews put up a hell of fight against the Nazi’s with nothing but guts.
China is watching
Russia GDP is $1.65 trillion with 144 million people. Texas GDP is $1.84 trillion with 29 million people. I think Putin must have been looking at this invasion of Ukraine as necessary with the value of oil doubling since Old Joe took over. Ukraine is wealthy in natural resources. Knowing that the end of Putin is near as the 144 million will not accept a drop in their living standard when oil falls again... as it will.
Leaders who are facing defeat become the most dangerous in desperation to prevent defeat.
However, if Ukraine actually prevents Russia from prevailing, I wonder if the rest of the free world should jump in and crush the bear once and for all.
And then we should look toward the paper tiger of China for the same.
No, our Pentagon would drive them to the middle of Kyiv and leave them there.
Ukrainians have been very brave especially their president. All this stuff about Ukraine being a dictatorship might have some truth, but Russia is must definitely a dictatorship and a cruel one at that, that has utterly crushed all opposition. I support Ukraine and wish them the best of luck if the defense of their homeland. I call of Western nations to impose much harder sanctions of Russia including oil. While declaring a state of emergency and pumping as much oil and gas here in the United States as possible (lift all restriction on pumping oil in our homeland).
The Duran provides many updates, more objective than western media. They are on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDuran/videos), rumble and locals
Foggiest fog of war ever
Why dangerous?
The thing most people are not understanding about this is that it is SIEGE -- good old fashioned siege warfare.
So many people have been used to US tactics of shock-and-awe they don't understand that Putin has essentially surrounded the entire country and is laying siege. The goal was never a shock-and-awe capture. It's nice the Ukrainians are putting up a fight, but when their food and everything else runs out and they can neither leave nor return to the country -- they'll give up.
Some good data appearing at THE SAKER and Moon of Alabama.
Alex, you are needed on a different front, not throwing out your credibility with hot takes based on propaganda.
Recon units entering cities, engaging in small arm fire and retreating is the operation that leads to intel and the larger city taking operation. It took three weeks for a WESTERN COALITION to take Baghdad, and six days to secure it. That is a smaller country with a much less well equipped and funded military. It was also after shock and awe that destroyed the countries infrastructure for years.
3 day hot take LOLing @ Russia based off propaganda is not a good look. Was it Ukrainains with cardboard guns https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianJamesESQ/status/1497661283872608259 and mags falling out https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianJamesESQ/status/1497674272470355970 that bolster such belief . Tell me your hot take when Putin takes most of Ukraine with the infrastructure in tact.
Western countries aren't coming to the rescue. Dumping in weapons will only cause more bloodshed (which western countries are ok with as long as Russia bleeds a little bit). The Gov't handing out AK's to civilians is disgusting. This isn't some life or death struggle for the citizenry, this is an armed conflict replacing one set of kleptocrats with another. It is in the peoples best interest to sit it out since the people who kept giving/selling Ukrainians weapons and dreams of EU/NATO partnership were all false hopes. Reality sucks, but ignore it at your own peril.
Ukraine was a backwater money skim for the elites. Right now it's a bleeding feed for Russians and Ukrainians, but will turn back to a money skim. For the US it is now the cause célèbre for all the administrations problems, a scape goat has been created to pivot off of covid.
We've also just screwed ourselves with the SWIFT action. We have no more leverage over Russia, except war. We've just freed them of any constraints up to that point.
You won't see freedom loving Ukrainians become refugees in US army bases. They would vote Republican
Sadly, I no longer believe western governments or mainstream media. They have lied / manipulated / warped things for years, with Covid being the most recent … and egregious.
I’m not saying Putin is justified in what’s he’s doing. However, he has been clear about his opposition of NATO expansion into Ukraine for 15 years & he witnesses the disastrous “adventures” of the US & its allies in global wars, adds in a bit of debacle from Afghanistan withdrawal, to prompt this move. His bet is that citizens of the West no longer have appetite for war. And trust in their govts is now at an all time low (thanks again, Covid!)
And, most concerning of all - he’s also betting on Biden’s utter incompetence.
And from some accounts the Russian Soldiers are having a moral dilema with this invasion, as they should....go figure....
If I called you Hitler and neo-Nazi first do I have the right to start a war? Quite a logic, isn't it?
This is how WWIII starts.
Imagine China moved into Mexico and was perched on our doorstep, like NATO would be, in Ukraine, if they were part of NATO.
We wouldn't stand for that.
Then, remind me why Russia should feel differently & I should hate them and want $6 BILLION taxpayer dollars sent to Ukraine.