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'Escalate to de-escalate': Experts say Putin's strategy may be to get more aggressive in war on Ukraine
Fox news ^ | 02/28/2022 | Tyler Olson

Posted on 02/28/2022 5:31:21 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

As Russia's war on Ukraine continues, some experts warn Russia might escalate the conflict further either in Ukraine or against the western nations supporting it, with the goal of forcing those nations to capitulate to its demands.

This strategy, former Defense Intelligence Agency officer Rebekah Koffler told Fox News, is called "escalate to de-escalate." It has roots in Russia's planning for a war against the United States, Koffler said, but similar thinking is now standard throughout Russia's military planning.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aggressive; experts; putin; ukraine
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Once again, he's not Hitler in 1944 going all in for total war
1 posted on 02/28/2022 5:31:21 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Putin the Rusian psychopath?


2 posted on 02/28/2022 5:35:06 PM PST by Rapscallion (Read about the threat from boa constrictors.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s pretty clear. Putin f’ed up.


3 posted on 02/28/2022 5:35:50 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Have there been any complaints from the globalists about Putin taking out their bioweapons labs in the Ukraine?


4 posted on 02/28/2022 5:36:18 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Putin showed Ukraine enough of what to expect. The Ukrainians don’t listen to their own or western propaganda when considering the very life of their nation. Putin is allowing the Ukrainians to come to a negotiated peace. This, they will do because not negotiating a peace is suicide for them, regardless of what the American talking heads are talking.


5 posted on 02/28/2022 5:38:49 PM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

6 posted on 02/28/2022 5:39:23 PM PST by skimbell
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Come to think of it, why does the MSM never mention anything about globalism, even though it’s the most powerful influence on geopolitics for the past several decades?


7 posted on 02/28/2022 5:39:26 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ve said for a while now that a joint Russian/Chinese plan MAY be for Russia to suck the U.S. into war in Europe. I now see the best way to do this would be for Russia to engage a NATO member, probably Poland, because we are bound by treaty to defend NATO countries.

With our military tied up, this would leave Tiawan wide open for the Chinese. After China has Taiwan, Russia will withdraw from the NATO country back to Ukraine, which is what Putin wanted all along. The media will say that Russia “caved to a tough President Biden”.

It’s the best of all worlds for all three of them: Russia get what they want: Ukraine. China gets what they want: Taiwan. And the media gets what they want: to get Biden’s failures off the front pages and replaced by a narrative they can spin in their party’s favor.


8 posted on 02/28/2022 5:40:44 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t know about that, he seems to be trying to do it on the installment plan. Sure, there is the sense of “I want. This over. Why isn’t this over?” But it feels like that is only because he wants to invade someone else and really can’t be having these silly little people with their silly little homes messing up his plans.


9 posted on 02/28/2022 5:41:06 PM PST by BlackAdderess (Hope for the best, prepare for the worst)
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To: libertylover

I’ve wondered if the deep state has bioweapons laboratories in Taiwan, like they apparently had in the Ukraine.


10 posted on 02/28/2022 5:43:14 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: libertylover

Nah, Putin simply wants to get the gang back together again before he kicks off. Kinda like another dictator from the last century.


11 posted on 02/28/2022 5:46:37 PM PST by skeeter
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To: BlackAdderess

“it feels like that is only because he wants to invade someone else”

But when Putin gave independence to Luhansk and Donetsk, it contradicted the low IQ “Putin as Conqueror” narrative being spewed by the globalists.


12 posted on 02/28/2022 5:50:54 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: libertylover

Losing both the Ukraine in Taiwan under his watch is not going to help Biden by any stretch of the imagination. Only drugs can make that kind of thinking seem possible.


13 posted on 02/28/2022 5:58:45 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (Welcome to leftist Planet Lab Cage where are YOU are the rat)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is what Putin does pretty much all the time. Escalate figuring his opponent will eventually not want to.

We’ll see a massive increase in the murder of civilians in the coming days by Putinist Russia. Russia and their useful idiots in the west will scurry around blaming Ukraine for Putin’s murder. Ballistic missiles, cluster bombs, MLRS, etc. All aimed at cities. The deaths will be in the tens of thousands easily.

Putin no doubt plans on the EU and/or Brandon forcing Ukraine to surrender at some point to stop it. This did not have to happen. Weakness breeds aggression and here we are.


14 posted on 02/28/2022 5:59:22 PM PST by lodi90
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To: reasonisfaith

But when Putin gave independence to Luhansk and Donetsk,


LOL. That’s funny. Do you write comedy for a living?


15 posted on 02/28/2022 6:00:08 PM PST by lodi90
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To: reasonisfaith

No it doesn’t. If I understand correctly the agitators in Luhansk and Donetsk were trained by and sent by Putin into these places. Declaring them independent aligned with Russia was to then set the stage for them calling the Ukrainians racists, which of course they did, claiming the Ukrainians are Nazis committing genocide against Russians in these places.


16 posted on 02/28/2022 6:02:16 PM PST by BlackAdderess (Hope for the best, prepare for the worst)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is from a twitter feed a little over half an hour ago. You can go to the site to see pics if you want…Antonov Airport is just outside Kiev

Christoph Koettl.
@nytimes
Visual Investigations journalist

Convoy update based on analysis of additional imagery provided by
@maxar
Troops are at Antonov Airport, meaning military vehicles & equipment are stretched out along 40 miles of road.


17 posted on 02/28/2022 6:04:20 PM PST by ALX
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To: lodi90

I didn’t mean to insult anyone’s globalist ideology.


18 posted on 02/28/2022 6:04:27 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He did eff up.

And many powerful normally pro-Pooty folks in Russia are not happy with what hes doing and calling for it to end.


19 posted on 02/28/2022 6:04:37 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BlackAdderess

Maybe it didn’t help things when our CIA funded Neo Nazis in the Ukraine.


20 posted on 02/28/2022 6:06:04 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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