If the Rubes hadn’t invaded, or even now simply announced a cease fire, while simultaneously communicating an end to any future advancement across UA, IF UA and RU would negotiate an end to conflict on neutral soil, UA really might bight.
However, over the past 3 weeks especially, language out of the Kremlin and from other Rube government sources in Moscow has revealed the Rubes moral right and greater intent to take back the Warsaw Pact.
Add to this the quasi Rube navy blockade on Baltic shipping routes, and Rube navy loitering off the coastlines of 11 + European nations and Cyprus, Egypt, and Istael, SIMULTANEOUSLY while the Rube navy has been systematically involved in Chicom naval formations around Taiwan — and now Lithuania stopping heavy weapons and WMD rail transports through Lithuania on the way to Kaliningrad...
Yah, only an utter fool who hates his country, and would invite a bloody attack on his country would stand down.
The real reason kinetic WWIII didn’t take place during formal CW1 was precisely the knowledge in Moscow they would also be vaporized.
The true reason all of this mess is happening now is because the Rube/Chicom/Nork/Babba axis know they won’t get vaporized with their Clinton/Obama/Biden manchurian fraud puppet continuum running interference for them in DC, and by default the traditional US leadership of NATO is now acting like it has no clue what to do.
Conservatives in the past knew the best way to avoid a war was for the enemy to know they would get mulched.
Only fools, or wolves seeking war would advocate for not being prepared to defend anything.
The true reason all of this mess is happening now…..
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…..is the Ukies violated the Minsk Agreements they signed in 2014 and started bombing the ethnic Russian Donbass provinces who wanted autonomy and Independence from the corrupted Ukraine regime. If you care to check, the Ukies started the civil war in 2015.