Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 12, 2025, 12:42 PMAnd I consider Chris's position a bit soft. He is afraid to piss off people too much about this IMHO.
Well his name is Hedges... He also left out the Crimean War of the mid 19th Century, another Brit and french invasion of Rus, when mentioning ww1, ww2 and Napoleon.
I wonder what % of the aforementioned opinions are really clueless when saying they support the people of Ukraine, not knowing thats like saying you supported the People of America in 1863. In any case I think they will be spared the reality check of how hopeless the 'ukranian' position is now.
The vietnam defeat was always explained as not being allowed to win, when in reality the US went to hitherto unseen extremes in carpet bombing the north and denuding foliage across a country. This time in Ukraine it will be explained in the media as Ukraine (only a condom/ proxy for the NATO penis) not being allowed to win again, when the reality of how badly theyre steadily being defeated at this stage is not reported.
Another thing that got no mention in the MSM or by politicians is BRICS. Trump does mention it casually and is concerned by the threat it poses to the USD and US empire he's trying to consolidate. I think in order to get a negotiated settlement that doesn't involve Russia entering Kiev, he will be secretly trying to negotiate offering lifting of sanctions with continued use of SWIFT and U$D, among other things. Odessa will likely be the major sticking point behind closed doors, if not publicly.
EU and UK have plans led ironically led by Germany, France and UK who have all invaded Russia before, not the other way around, to build up their own military to fight Rus. That will just be a boondoggle for US arms dealers, while putting further downward pressure on euro standard of living. Europe has no affordable energy to build any weaponry at necessary wartime production rate or enough men willing to go and die. Standing with Ukraine doesn't extend to that. I doubt many of the immigrants are interested either, so it would require a draft. Not even a sketchy plan or timeline ever gets outlined along with talk by eg von der leyen announcing 800 billion euro spending to defeat Russia, just vague platitudes and promises to do something or other in future. one thing for sure is with all that money they could just buy the resources at friendly trade partner prices from Russia
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