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Your fixation with cookies does not let you see a simple reality. Effective Ruzzia and the West play in different leagues.
Your fixation with cookies does not let you see a simple reality. Effective Ruzzia and the West play in different leagues.
You can replace cookies with "financial expansionism", if you wish. As i previously said, yes i agree, on a financial plain, "west" and RU are clearly in different leagues. And that's exactly the reason why US started to play on this field, to leverage it's advantage, and exactly the reason why RU decided to switch plains to the one it's more level on (military). Everyone was well aware of RU's red lines and were fully aware that RU wouldn't play on the field where it's guaranteed to loose from the start. RU even demanded written response to their security demands before this all started which i fully expect them to publish once this is over. Knowing all this, why Zelenskyy still volunteered to sacrifice his people is beyond me
Of course, it could be expected from you to say anything different. But why don't we talk about the elephant in the room?
You probably were thinking that Trump was going to hand over Ukraine, and now you have probably realised that it is not only the case, but further more Trump is going to arm twist the Ruzzian economy further into reaching a reasonable peace plan.
Trump is a chatterbox and a fascist. But this is not Russia's problem now, but rather Canada, Denmark, Panama, Ukraine and the EU. Trump promised to end this conflict in 24 hours and did not do it. Now Trump wants to end this conflict in 100 days and it is unlikely that anything will happen again if he has not even bothered to call Putin. This is all empty talk, not worthy of interested attention.You probably were thinking that Trump was going to hand over Ukraine, and now you have probably realised that it is not only the case, but further more Trump is going to arm twist the Ruzzian economy further into reaching a reasonable peace plan.
I am no fan of Trump, and be sure it is everyone's problem Â
You are right about one thing there, he makes a lot of noise for every tiny thing he does, but he wants to end the war in Ukraine and he cannot be seen as a weakling, so... expect an inordinate degree of pressure to be on the table.
Biden, in my view, never wanted to really end the war, it would have been very easy to provide the right level of support for that, and not a few bradleys here and there.
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?
If you ask me, this war has not finished yet because the US wants it to continue. From US point of view, you do not always get the chance to destroy the Ruzzian arsenal, damage their economy and harm their diplomacy all that for just a tiny bit of your GDP and without any US human loses whatsoever.
I would say that, again from the US point of view why not making this last another 5 years? It costs them nearly nothing.
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We can discuss what if it's aliens, but i think it'd would be of benefit to all to discuss probable outcomes.
We all see what Ukraine was able to achieve with the previous level of support. Naturally, to change the current trend, the support must not only continue but it needs to be increased, and as you've pointed out, exponentially. So far, there is not even a discussion of sending any more aid from US instead US even froze the current aid it already promised to deliver. EU is posturing as if they can compensate the missing US aid but i believe everyone knows that's just laughable. Sanctions are also in the same boat, not even hint of new sanctions from Trump on Russia but instead we do have this Trump vows to launch trade war on EU “The European Union has treated us so terribly,” U.S. president complains, as Canada and Mexico get nailed with blitz of tariffs.
US cannot do that because Ukraine simply doesn't have human resources to last 5 years. Sure Ukraine can be pressured to mobilize 18yr old kids now, but how effective do you expect them to be and how long will they last, it'll probably just buy Ukraine another year tops and they'll be in even worse position than now, and then what? Total collapse will cause even more resentment against US and will have ripple effects in EU which it might not be able to survive, look at the already appeared cracks Orban, Fico, Vucic, AfD... Once again, there's no free lunch.
Nice cherry picking job, your specialty as usual.
But all the what ifs that I wrote about are on the table. Ukraine has been able to withstand and let Ruzzia burn people and lots of vehicles, nearly 10.000 military units according to some decent sources. The Ruzzian economy has suffered, and after 3 years it will not be able to cope with serious pressure.
The fact remains that, if the US chooses to put pressure by sending more aid to Ukraine or pressing just even a bit on the oil exports, Ruzzia will start making plenty of goodwill gestures. And this IS a realistic scenario, and it would imply Ruzzia no longer to claim that at least is "advancing". Wheter you choose to post pictures and ignore what is happening is irrelevant, anyone can see what is happening in terms of what Putin is saying and what Marco Rubio is saying.
Orban a crack
Orban is in Putins pocket but he means nothing, is everyones elses favourite joke. You know what is a crack? The Ruzzian fleet sailing out of Syria.