Having an ever-harder time writing about US and Western politics and society.
Dangerous buffoons head the governments of the major Western countries. Right here, once the greatest place on earth, we have leadership at both the national and local level that would prove an international embarrassment if not nearly all the other leaders around the world also prove embarrassments.
No major Western country has a leader worth admiring or, at least, about whom one can feel moderately hopeful. Canada? Australia? UK? France? NZ? All led by morons of varying degree who have bought into the Woke nonsense destroying Western Civilization. They prattle on about equity, climate change, inclusivity, open borders, "diversity is our strength," gender "identity," etc. The only glimmers of hope come from heads of "lesser" powers: Italy, Singapore, Hungary, and--for now, though probably not for long--Brazil.
As though that did not prove enough to fill one with despair, these self-hating creeps seem determined to get us into war, the hot kind, including the use of nuclear weapons. We have ZOMBUS Biden, speaking to a conclave of Democratic donors, idly speculating about how close we are to nuclear "Armageddon." Oh, his handlers immediately say, pay no mind, it's just a passing thought, one of many pouring through the sieve that the man with his finger on our nuclear trigger calls a brain. He, or whoever writes his stuff, seeks to draw an equivalence between the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and the Russian war against Ukraine--rubbish of the most dangerous kind. This is even worse than when our "leaders" in the recent past kept finding an equivalence between every challenge they faced and Munich 1938. Making it all even worse, of course, is that nobody I can find trusts Biden's leadership or managerial abilities. All those who hate Trump might want to reflect on how much more dangerous an international situation the West now faces when compared to when the "Mean Tweeter" held power. Now, we have chaos everywhere we look.
Russian leader Putin has gotten himself and his country and the world into a tremendous mess. To be fair, he warned us repeatedly that Ukraine's joining NATO was a red line for Moscow. We, in response, sent Willie Brown's mistress, Kamala Harris, to Europe to announce how we would welcome Ukraine into NATO. The Cuba analogy is reversed. When Moscow pushed up to our shores in 1962, we responded with the threat of nuclear war. Ukraine is Russia's Cuba--on steroids.
What did our leaders think ("think," who thinks anymore?) would be Moscow's response? Invasion. Poorly planned, poorly executed, but, nevertheless an invasion, a bloody and brutal one, at that. The Kyiv bunch called in their chits; they, after all, own the Biden crime family. Billions of dollars in equipment and financial support poured out from the US treasury, headed for the Kyiv kleptos. Preserving the sanctity of Ukraine's borders became the greatest moral crusade since WWII! Never mind the borders of Western Europe or our own. No! Those borders are evil and deserve to be violated! But, Ukraine's? Those are set in cement! The whole fate of the world depends on those borders! No suffering by our citizens is enough! Turn the global economy upside down! It's all for a sacred cause!
So now what? What is the exit plan? Overthrow the regime in Moscow? Then, what? Whom do you get? Are we making any plans for a diplomatic solution? Are we giving Moscow a face-saving exit? Zelensky seems determined to push up to the Russian border--and even beyond? He calls for the West to undertake preventative strikes on Russia, and we get the usual talking heads mindlessly talking about nuking the Russian Black Sea fleet . . . no thoughts on what would constitute Russia's response.
Are the Ukrainians winning? Who knows? The information coming out of the war is so twisted and censored, we can't know. If they are, now might be a good time to seek a deal with Russia, before Russia, slow, sloppy, corrupt, inept Russia gets fully mobilized, and gets its act together--and it will.
The march to war must stop. We have no vital interests in the final shape of Ukraine's borders.
No doubt that for every buck or bullet sent to the Ukraine, the Big Guy is getting or expecting to get his 10% kickback.
ReplyDeleteI believe he is certainly getting some sort of kickback. To not do so would not be the Joe Biden Way
Delete"The Cuba analogy is reversed." Not really. The whole Cuba imbroglio started with JFK's shockingly reckless decision to put first-strike missiles into Turkey.
ReplyDeleteThis time Putin has done the equivalent of attack Turkey. Khrushchev wouldn't have risked that since Turkey was a NATO member. Ukraine is not.
You know, I hear constantly the fears of nuclear strikes from Russia in retaliation for Ukrainian victories, and I get why. However, I never hear anybody talk about how this would be a massive escalation of how nuclear powers fight proxy wars that were established back in the Korean War, lasted through Vietnam, Soviet Afghanistan, Syria, Crimea, and Georgia. To wit: one nuclear power can act openly and aggressively while the other would act through proxies and arms transfers. Nuclear weapons would not be used, even if one side was losing. Nothing the US had done in Ukraine has been out of line with what was done in those prior wars.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, this open discussion by Russia of using nuclear weapons to defend conquered lands is beyond crazy. It makes acquiring nuclear weapons an existential issue for all of Russia's small neighbors, which will both curtail Russian regional hegemony and put the Russia people at risk of annihilation.
For once, I don't agree with Dip's position vis-a-vis Ukraine. Putin invaded that country, first to Crimea in 2014 and now the whole shebang, on the premise that ethnic Russians lived there and his job was to protect them. Sorry, but No. And Ukraine, corrupt and Bidenesque as it is, is kicking him back out, as they should.
ReplyDeleteAnd we need to help them.
Who's next? The Baltics? They have plenty of ethnic Russians living there. But they have transformed from communist Soviet serfdoms into vibrant capitalistic European countries. Putin has no business deciding who and where should be part of Russia.
Now, if we want to argue that it is Europe's job to fix this, fine. But they aren't, and they can't.
I'm all for providing Ukraine with all the military help they require. It's a noble cause.
And finally, no, I'm not suggesting nuclear assistance. That sort of talk is indeed reckless.
Well I'm sorry to say, I disagree with our host on the Ukraine part as well. Russia has been trading on their ignoble past for too long. V. Putin has shown the world that he sits atop a large nuclear pile of weapons which may or may not work, based on the surprising disfunction of his current arms and army. His hardware is no match for modern western weaponry. So he blusters and threatens and attacks civilians while his vaunted army sits helpless and desperate in eastern Ukraine. The whole world sees this. His young men are fleeing Russia by all means available which the world sees as well.
DeletePutin conducts a phony 'vote' to annex parts of Ukraine and takes to the stage to announce in a lengthy speech that yes, he intends to upend the western dominance and global order. He will be the 'Duginist' for all the world to admire. Bull feathers.
Oh, this is Putin's speech:
Deletehttps://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/putin-proclaims-russian-idea
All good points. My view, however, comes from the perspective of US interests. This is not our fight. We helped create the fight by not taking into account Russia's security interests, and not believing Moscow on what it would do. We had a "President" and a "Vice President" deliberately provoking Putin for no real reason, at the same time that we weakened ourselves by shutting down a big chunk of our oil and gas production. Formula for disaster.
DeleteNewsflash: Today, 17 October, 1981, left wing Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, with encouragement from the communist leader with whom he shares his wife, asked the Soviet Union for Incorporation into the Warsaw Pact. So far, there has been no response from the Soviets.
DeleteNewsflash: 2 Jan, 1982: Fighting between Canadian Forces and anti-communist secessionists in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland continues, with Canada employing cluster munitions against the secessionists.
Newsflash: 18 February, 1982: Today, in a speech, President Ronald Reagan made clear his intention to prevent Canada from joining the Warsaw Pact.
Newsflash: 23 Feburary, 1982: Soviet Spetznaz are alleged to have arrived secretly today at CFB Petawawa, to begin training Canadian Forces on Soviet weapons. The weapons, themselves, other than a small training package, may be on ships, inbound from Leningrad and Murmansk…
Newflash: 24 Feburary, 1982: American tanks crossed over the Canadian border today, under cover of massive artillery and airstrikes. Canada’s Parliament building is in flames. Prime Minister Trudeau looked up briefly from between the legs of the teen aged girl he was eating, to snarl defiance…
Unlike Ukraine, the Baltic States are NATO members and therefore we are obligated by treaty to defend them. Not so with Ukraine. Providing assistance isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we should have done so with clear conditions made plain to the Ukrainians. This includes working towards a negotiated settlement. Hmm, they were doing so in April and then somehow it all fell apart......
DeleteWe broadcasted weakness in declaring in advance that we will not be involved. I'm pretty sure that was important to Putin, if not Xi. If potus planned this as a trap for putin (ie, we're not going to put boots on the ground, but it turns out we can win a war against russia without boots now..), then I'm impressed.... but that's highly doubtful.
DeleteFlushing our military hardware into Ukraine and rebuilding at home makes sense at this point as we need a full audit to be certain all of our military supply chain components are 'on shored' after the last few decades of blindly trusting the CCP.
- reader #1482
Before the Russian invasion, I like most people I guess, could not have cared less whether the people of Crimea, Donbass and Eastern Ukraine chose to live in Ukraine or Russia. Nothing to do with anyone else except the people of the region. However, after the invasion we should support the Ukrainians, despite their government's corruption, as they were trying to become more democratic.
ReplyDeleteI know this would never happen but what if Putin decided that the 1868 Alaska Purchase was invalid and Alaska really belonged to Russia so set about taking it?
If the West really wanted to stop this invasion, we should send to the disputed regions all our unwanted 'Newer Citizens'. We're constantly being told that they are our future doctors / health professionals / lawyers / architects / sports stars / assets to society so I am sure the Russians would welcome them as fellow citizens. However, I suspect that they'd throw the tanks into reverse and withdraw from those areas straight away!
Surprising! I would have expected that Dip's readers would have been better informed. The world did not start in 2022. When the Kiev kleptocrats ruled in 2014 that Ukrainian citizens who happened to speak Russian were unwelcome scum and commenced murdering them, where were all these people who now mindlessly condemn Russia's intervention in that Ukrainian civil war?
ReplyDeleteThree things are clear:
1. A border dispute in the Ukraine is not worth the bones of a single American.
2. If the Biden* Mal-Administration would stop funding the Kiev kleptocrats, sending weapons, and engaging in ultra-provocative terrorist strikes like blowing up pipelines, the Kiev crew would soon find their way to negotiate a reasonable solution.
3. If the Biden* Mal-Administration carries on with its dangerous & expensive proxy war, the probability of global thermonuclear war will rise exponentially.
The US should be seeking to help resolve the complex issue resulting from the Ukraine's tortured past -- not seeking to expand the war.
"The world did not start in 2022". The Russian invasion of Ukraine did. 2014 was then, this is now. The solution is all Russian military out of Ukraine including Crimea. In return, Kiev can assist Russian authorities in finding their tens of thousands of dead littering and rotting on Ukrainian soil. Needlessly I should add.
DeleteNot exactly sure which of Dip's
Deletereaders you referenced Gavin,
but seems "clear" to me that the
POTUS, his regime, his CCP,
providers, the Davos dirtbags,
and other such scum sucking
Oligarchs - foreign & domestic,
as well as the pack of 'Rats &
brain damaged herd of Rinos,
who are doing there best/worst
to destroy the last BEST hope,
of mankind~~~our Constitutional
Republic for which the best of
US, gave their all, to ensure that
our liberty and freedom endures~~~
Also, see the wisdom, and commonsense
articulated in your three point commentary GL,
and in those raised and made in our Host's Post
above, tks Dip~~~
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Whitewall: "The solution is all Russian military out of Ukraine including Crimea."
DeleteThat way, the corrupt Kiev kleptocrats can return to shelling, bombing, and murdering Ukrainian citizens who happen to speak Russian. And all the righteous people in the West can be satisfied that they have done good, restoring the Ukraine to a place where the Biden family can effortlessly collect their 10%.
Gavin, how about this time around, the Kievers don't do that anymore. Times change as do people. The American south used to abide lynching blacks. No more. Now we can deal with the Biden family.
DeleteI don't really see the 'border dispute' here. I do believe that Putin thought he had a 1st world military. His military actually matches his 3rd world economy and he vastly miscalculated as a result.
DeleteEven Putin has walked back claims of anti-russian biases. He now claims that one of Kiev's infringements is an "attack on the Russian language."
This is a follow-on to decades of western appeasement and encouragement of the growth PRC influence throughout the world.
- reader #1482
The history of this conflict is hundreds of years old
ReplyDeleteSince day 1 IMO its not our problem.
Good heavens! We can express different opinions here without yelling and calling each other names!
ReplyDeleteYou noticed too? Our host sets the tone for that imo. Besides, we are simply a collection of 'dangerous intellectuals' here. It's all over the interweb.
Deleteimo, all of Russian actions in this are domestic political theatrics and have nothing to do with NATO, the US, or any other external moves.
ReplyDeleteNATO is simply unable to produce a security threat to a preschool, much less a country.
The biggest problem here is that Russia, including the russian people, have established that their competence was completely destroyed by communism. There is pretty widespread agreement in Russia that in the last 25 years, there has been only *one* russian qualified and competent to hold office... that means that russians are, regardless of what they *were*, incompetent.
I think it's true that Trump's refusal to do stupid things like commit to not deploying forces to Ukraine and general cultivation of a faux-unstable public persona effectively deterred this attack. But I don' t really think that's a long term strategy for the US.
I'm with John Bolton on these issues.
- reader #1482
reader #1482: "NATO is simply unable to produce a security threat to a preschool, much less a country."
ReplyDeleteIs this someone pretending to be reader #1482? Because reader #1482 would never say anything in such violent opposition to the facts!
NATO, that great defensive organization, bombed Serbia for almost three months straight. NATO bombed Libya, creating an undemocratic mess of a divided country which continues up to today. NATO spent two decades in Afghanistan, killing civilians for no earthly reason at all.
Reality is that NATO is the world's #1 threat to peace. It should have been terminated when the USSR broke up and there was no longer any threat to Europe ... beyond threats that the rich Europeans could have handled on their own. There is absolutely no reason for USA's continued membership in evil NATO.
With you all the way GL,
Deletebut, would insert that both the
CCP & NATO now share the title,
as the "World's #1 threat to peace"~~~
w/ the Criminal Biden Regime as #1 U$ enabler.
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Delete& there, wanting a piece o' Putin,
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Tucker Carlson DESTROYS AOC
Over UKRAINE WARMONGERING
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apologies, I do consider america to be a threat to russia.. as it should be... but nato itself just comes along for the ride.. when the US left afghanistan, there was never any question..
Delete- reader #1482
I have to amend that because even the US does not threaten Russia outside of the russian echo chambers of moscow.
DeleteLet's say the US itself decamped for Donbas and deployed our whole range of strategic assets there in 2013.
The *only* difference since then would have been the lack of russian invasion of Ukraine.
There would be no US attack on or invasion of russia.
We already have the capability to strike from 3,000 miles away with almost the same effect, proximity would not change that.
Yes, our corrupt media elite would still be 'forcing' sissy crap boy-bands on russian audiences that chose to listen to it.... but that's no different either.
There's simply no justification for any part of this invasion. It's a flight of fantasy in the heads of Putin and whoever's on the strings of that marionette.
The 'threat' of NATO, is only that of the stymieing of larger imperial ambitions outside agreed russian borders.
I'm singularly unhappy with how maidan goons ran a fairly elected president out of office through thuggery alone. But that also is no excuse for this invasion and any complaints about that should come from a functioning republic, not a vassal dictatorship of the CCP.
I would not be surprised if it comes out that Putin had his back against the wall and was effectively ordered by Xi to undertake this. China's GDP is almost exactly 10x that of Russia. It's extremely clear who is the junior partner here.
- reader #1482
"Is this someone pretending to be reader #1482?"
DeleteSuspect you may just be onto something, GL~~~
I have sensed a droop, or perhaps, more like a sag,
in one of our dear reader's 'brows of late, hoping
he hasn't lost his outlOOk completely, as I do recall
reading a missive of his down in the bilges/archives,
from 6/7yrs ago, wherein he lamented his inability to
make cogent arguments in some of his comments...
Seems to me, he's mostly in fine fettle these days,
except when, what appears to be, a 'low brow'
material miscue, leaks into his otherwise fine
intellect of such an informatics processing Wiz...
Or maybe, like so many, he suffers,
hurricane side effects?
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I do have a comment probably some 5-8 years ago where I provided a hash of a password encrypted with, I think, md5 or sha256.. I can't find it with immediate searching though... but the comments so far claiming to be #1482 are me legitimately fwiw.... could prove if needed eventually
DeleteI'm in agreement on many facts here, but where I seem to be swimming upstream is: 1) NATO is a flimsy excuse for Putin, he's a tyrant doing what tyrants usually do, attack before he can be unseated, 2) Ukraine's problems are legitimate, the unseating of yanukovich was problematic and that has to be fixed going forward without resorting to an invasion, 3) at this point, Putin might just be Xi's puppet. Russia's GDP, even with all its energy output, is merely 1/10th of the PRC's... even considering that PRC is lying out of its butt, 4) Russia has abdicated its long and valiant history by submitting themselves to a Putin for 25 years, 5) Biden either won or stole-cleanly-enough-to-get-away-with-it and while his attacks on civil society by trying to jail a former president because of political differences are terrible, there's a bunch of nasty stuff in politics.. and this doesn't seems beyond the pale for lefty politics in america.
I soured on Trump's foreign policy legacy due to DOHA and I've been pretty aligned with John Bolton on foreign policy since the late 1990s.
Ultimately, conservatives will win out in the end because progressives, fortunately, rarely breed.
- reader #1482
If I was a Russian I would consider that Putin is rather stupid and generally unpleasant. As a Russian I would also think he is our stupid and unpleasant man. I certainly wouldn't take advice from the corrupt and senile old dipstick you Americans have installed as president.
ReplyDeleteboe, it could be worse...'Heels up Harris' is only a heart beat away from the top job.
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ReplyDeleteCouldn't resist!
What do you expect from a government that is more concerned that we have x-number of trans military brass than with battle readiness? Do we honestly think that regimes like those of Putin, Xi, Fatso Gim, and the Mad Mullahs don't notice?
ReplyDeleteBefore we decide to withdraw to our shores, let's make sure we have our own industries and capabilities rebuilt.
ReplyDeleteDear Diplomad….been reading you for it seems 20 years. Anyhow if you want the skinny on the Uke war read “the Duran” blog and “the New Atlas” blog.Both blogs helmed by disinterested experts.
ReplyDeleteThanks
ReplyDeleteDiplomad
I think the problem is that we really don't know what Putin wanted from this invasion. Did he just want a change of kleptocrats in Kiev and lucrative Gazprom contracts, or did he want to annex Ukraine into a "Greater " Russian Federation with an eye to moving further west to the mountain passes, as per Peter Zeihan?
ReplyDeleteIf the first option, no big deal, corrupt Russians get rich instead of corrupt Americans.
In the second option, does a successful putsch lead him to believe he could do the same to Poland (an actual NATO member) also on the list of mountain passes Russia wants for security. I'm guessing people with this opinion are in ascendance in the US govt. Thus we give Ukraine a bunch of high tech stuff to show what would happen if they try an attack on a NATO country. This has the added benefits of protecting the "swamp-critters'" rice-bowls in Kiev, keeping open the spigot of money to the "Military-Industrial Complex", and allowing Joe Biden to feel like a tough guy.
We probably should have stopped after sending a bunch of Javelins & Stingers to show our displeasure. Now the only way out is to show the world once again to never ally with US, we will cut you off whenever the winds change in DC.
Good points. Thanks
Delete"I think the problem is that we really don't know what Putin wanted from this invasion."
DeleteAu contraire! Russia repeatedly told the US & the West exactly what it wanted. Russia even took the very unusual step of publishing the proposed treaty it sent to the US & NATO early this year. They want the Kiev crew to stop their 8-year long war on people in the Donbas; for the Ukraine to become neutral; and for NATO to live up to its 1990s promise and stop the threatening encroachment towards Russia.
None of that seemed unreasonable. Of course, that was Russia's opening proposal, and we do not know what lesser deal they would have accepted. All we do know is that the Biden* Mal-Administration & the NATO lapdogs blew off the Russian proposal. And now human beings are dying in the Ukraine, and facing increasingly hard times in Europe.
There is blood on the hands of Biden* and whoever is manipulating him
I do not think there was any such security threat honestly observed by Russia/Putin.
DeleteI think it's *clearly* a matter of gross incompetence.
Out of the hundreds of millions of people living in Russia over the last 25 years, apparently only one is competent enough to run the country.
With that level of rampant incompetence, it's no surprise they were getting their butts handed to them even *before* we started shipping serious materiel to Ukraine.
afaik, there was never even a written XO to not expand NATO.... let alone a ratified treaty. Nobody should expect the US to abide by an agreement that hasn't been ratified by congress. The mullah terrorists in Iran certainly knew that when obama begged the jcpoa out of them. Russia knew that in the 1990's as well.
If Russia doesn't want to be in a situation where their 'leadership' feels threatened by NATO, they should put in power some competent people. Putin has failed Russia and all russians *repeatedly* now for 25 years. The state of their military is proof of that, torn apart and on the run in fear of an overgrown street gang.
I really hope their nukes don't work.
- reader #1482
"Nobody should expect the US to abide by an agreement that hasn't been ratified by congress."
ReplyDeleteWe seem to be sliding towards a civilization-ending global thermonuclear war -- that means you dead, reader #1482, as well as me and our host -- without a vote in the US Congress to go to war over the extremely corrupt, highly-divided area known as the Ukraine.
Russia's intervention in the ongoing Ukrainian civil war on its borders is no more reason for us all to die than, for example, Saudi Arabia's intervention in the civil war on its borders in Yemen.
"We seem to be sliding towards a civilization-ending global thermonuclear war"
DeleteIMO, this has never been other-than-true.
"They have people there who speak our language.. of course they want to be part of our country, regardless of how they appear to be again our annexation and fighting back."
- anschluss
One of Putin's primary claims is that Ukraine is attacking "the russian language." Seriously, this sounds like a progressive talking point at a local school district meeting in San Francisco. "It's a micro-aggression against the spanish language!!! No!!!!"
Sorry, if Putin invaded California, he'd meet much less resistance today. Why do we want to model bullies and pushovers?
- reader #1482
There are a lot of other advantages here too.... Russian military hardware turns out to be disastrously inferior. Even their su-57, supposedly a 5th generation fighter, has been outed as little more than an su-35 with a body kit. They won't fly it, because *when* it's shot down by ancient AA, export business will completely dry up.
DeleteAnd the CCP's military hardware is almost exclusively cloned and stolen from Russian hardware. imo, this conflict has drastically changed global perception of military dominance in a diametrically opposite direction from that post-Afghanistan.
Overall, I think this conflict will curtail PRC ambitions globally for quite some time.
Being that Russia is a junior partner to the CCP (10:1 GDP ratio), this is effectively a true proxy-war.
One last caveat: the US, Russia, and China have all officially not lit off a nuclear bomb in some 40 years. I personally suspect that North Korea tested a CCP-implemented W88 from stolen US plans. It's inconceivable that a country with the GDP of San Jose, CA, has the capability of building a *fusion* bomb themselves.
The US, Russia, and China all do not know whether their stockpile of nuclear warhead even work. Even with reconditioning and rebuilds, there are so many ways such systems could have degraded.
If/when Putin tests a nuke, we can all have another discussion. If he's attempted to but found a dud, then he's bluffing with a 2-7 off suit.
I don't think the US had a hand in all this, but if we did, someone was really thinking ahead and had an amount of confidence in US military supremacy that I didn't have at the time.
- reader #1482
As a wise and well seasoned Diplomadic hand wrote above'
ReplyDeleteand, I suspect as an aid for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind kids
here & there, aka the jerks, jackasses, fools, clowns, and
half-baked morons, justa blowin their tin horns as if they
have a clue what tune the Rus will select for the Grand
finale at the Winter Wonderland in Ukraine~~~
..."now might be a good time to seek a deal with Russia, before Russia, slow, sloppy, corrupt, inept Russia gets fully mobilized, and gets its act together--and it will."-WLA
Comes now: Col. Douglas Macgregor: There’s no chance of negotiating an end to the Ukraine War/...October 18,(23h ago)
Hot, Sraight, & Normal, >---Courtesy of revolver---> ..revolver"https://www.revolver.news/2022/10/col-douglas-macgregor-theres-no-chance-of-negotiating-an-end-to-the-ukraine-war/"
The good colonel continues to give a very
interesting perspective on Ukraine.
...
…Once you move above the tactical level and you move up to what we would call division or core levels you find NATO staffs are actually running the show, in other words people from France, Great Britain, the United States, other countries are doing this
the systematic planning and setting forth proposals for what should happen next.
…The problem is for every one Russian killed or wounded, you have five, six, or seven Ukrainians being killed or wounded. So for the Russians, they’ve economized, they’ve run a fairly cheap, inexpensive, defense while the Ukrainians have run very expensive
offenses. So now Ukraine is in a very serious ,crisis it may not survive, particularly when this major offensive begins in November, December time frame . And the ground is frozen I don’t know what the Ukrainians will do because then they will face the regular Russian army, large numbers of Russian army troops, not just volunteers and allied units, but the Russian army, and it will have the operational freedom to do what many Russians wanted to do at the beginning, which is anything that we suspect is dangerous or threatening to us can be targeted and destroyed. It’ll be a very different war that’s coming.
…Where will the Russians stop? I suspect they’ll stop at the Dneipro river, they’ve never been interested in crossing that. They don’t want to go into what is historically Ukraine, which is west of the river, that’s where the Ukrainians live, they’re not Russified, they are real Ukrainians. He doesn’t want to go over there, but he’s going to take Odessa, he’s going to take Kharkov, these cities will be taken once and for all as a result of these offenses.
…As far as the Russians are concerned, Odessa has always been a Russian city, it was never part of Ukraine. The same thing is true for
Kharkov. These were Russian cities from the very beginning and they were Russian speaking….”
Accurate, or not? We shall see. One thing is for sure, and that is that Col. Macgregor is not held hostage by conventional wisdom.
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