Posted on 05/19/2022 1:04:56 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Nothing is certain, that was just an educated guess from my assessment of how Russia would react.
Yes, which means that $40 billion given Ukraine today is just a down payment. If the neocons have their way this will be another multi-trillion dollar war before it’s over.
Meant sincerely, tovarsish. Have you gotten a raise yet?
How? Will the Russians swim there?
Tell me something, that $40b dollars to Zelenskyy you were cheering for, where did it come from?
Putin then decided to stir up his agents in the Donbas including some of the other oligarchs on his payroll and invaded Crimea. When the Ukrainians recovered some the Donbas, pro-Ukrainian locals were found murdered in mass graves. More or less what we've also seen in this war. Putin and the Russians are scum and always have been.
In most of the wars post 1945 the US has not dealt with opponents like the Russians. These other opponents were guerillas sheltering behind sympathetic or cowed civilians. The closest were the regular forces of Iraq, which used largely Soviet doctrines, as do the Russians, and the Iraqis were simply wiped away. The Russian system IS to depend on vast expenditure of ammunition from large numbers of artillery pieces. In Eastern European terrain these cannot be hidden, or perhaps such weapons can no longer be hidden anymore anyway.
Based on current videos, of which there is lots, mainly of Ukrainian guns firing counterbattery vs Russian artillery, Russian guns and launchers are placed and used the same old way, and, with their logistics, are sitting ducks to the vast range of weapons the USAF can bring to bear.
Great idea if one wants to see more Ukrainians die and wants to see what is left of Ukraine continue to shrink.
It's all the more reason the Russians need to take Odessa and secure the whole coastline.
Russians will control the sea and air by the time this is over and can have missiles waiting if we're dumb enough to try an insurgency.
That's as likely as you dunking a basketball over LeBron James.
The Russians will control the entire coastline by the time this is done. Even NATO itself couldn't stop that by getting directly involved.
That must explain why the territory the Russians control diminishes more and more almost every day. Russian strategic genius!
You're completely ignorant. The Russians have operated a naval base in Crimea since the last 1700s including during the period of time you reference.
The USA is mostly irrelevant in this game
Neocons aren't sharpest tools in the shed.
And, what is truly and danger to the world is American last globalism, which you either knowingly or unwittingly are supporting.
Negotiate, Zelensky!
biden cannot save you, or anyone else (including us Americans)!!!!
Crimea was not Russian territory from 1991 to 2014. It still isn’t internationally recognized as Russian territory. They operated the naval base in Sebastopol together with the Ukrainians by treaty. Since they violated both the Budapest memoranda and the naval treaty, Russia no longer has any right to use Sebastopol. Whether anyone will be willing or able to force them out is another question.
The US is the second largest supplier of weaponry to Ukraine.
Behind the Russian army, of course.
You are propagandist rewriting history. Of course, there was a coup that threw out a democratically-elected President and installed radicals and neo-Nazis intent on committing genocide against ethnically Russian population. We backed it and it set off an eight-year civil war.
In Odessa, 39 people were forced into a trade union building and burned to death by neo-Nazis because they opposed the coup. In Mariupol, the Ukrainian nationalists killed seven police officers and burned the police station after the coup.
God damn you and lies to hell.
They’ll end up on the black market and will end up in the gunwals of one of our carriers , mark my words.
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It actually might be a decent plan, since Russia can’t get any more ships into the Black Sea, and they have already proven that they can’t defend against the anti-ship missiles very well. So the ships they have there seem like sitting ducks if Ukraine has munitions to hit them with and the intelligence to target them.
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