Quote from: be.open on Today at 06:46:35 AM

Quote from: paxmao on Today at 12:07:30 AM

You may need glasses, even with 2 minutes of thinking anyone could come up with some ideas...

- What if the aid to Ukraine triples for a year? It would not take much of the US budget to do so.
- What if the US decides that, after all, it is OK for Ukraine to join NATO?
- What if the oil production is increased until barrel at 35 USD? Ruzzia would not be able to finance the war, but not only that, the debt that is hidden all over the privates companies would be at default most likely.
- What if the US decides that Wagner should be expelled from Africa?

According to legend, when Philip of Macedon approached the walls of Sparta, he sent a message to the Spartans saying: "I have conquered all of Greece, I have the best army in the world. Surrender, because if I take Sparta by force, if I break down its gates, if I batter its walls, I will mercilessly destroy the entire population and raze the city to the ground!" To which the Spartans sent the shortest known answer: "If."

Don't threaten if you can't follow through - it's a sign of weakness.

ps Here is a fresh interview with the new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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We deceived ourselves and convinced others that Ukraine would somehow not only defeat Russia, but push it back to the borders before the annexation of Crimea. And as a result, they have been asking us for the last year and a half to finance a draw. A drawn-out draw that multiplies human suffering. At the same time, Ukraine itself has been thrown back 100 years, its energy infrastructure wiped off the face of the earth.

Of course, he is not going to say that the previous administration did anything good. But words are wind, while facts are facts.

It is truem they US has been financing a draw. It has been very useful for the US, decapitalise and reduce the means of the Ruzzian army, get many people they do not care about killed ....

The point is that it may very well happen that the new administration follows up in that line and eventually does not longer finance a draw, but does finance a lasting peace. There is only one winner in all this.