Yes, Gates is 100% right!
I disagree with Gates. While I am adamantly pro-Ukraine in this war the pace of support was rational in the way it ramped up in relation to the Ukrainian effort to fight back.
There was little sense in trying to support Ukraine at the outset when it was unsure if the regime would survive.
Once it was clear that the Ukrainians were not going to fold then it made sense to increase support.
The Ukrainians have stymied the Russian advance and now they need the help to oust the Russians from Ukraine.
Interesting thing is the way US-NATO support for Ukraine has escalated mirrors how US-Allied support for Russia escalated after they made clear they were going to fight back against the Nazis.
So evil Putin went in and now Biden, Obama and the uniparty have changed their tune.
They're playing a very dangerous game and they are weakening our military.
All to the benefit of the Chicoms and The Big Guy.
Not one dime until the border wall is completed, the border militarized, and the people illegally here, ejected.
This leaves 3 of them with only nuclear options, while China retains its full set of options.
Which begs the question - did Biden, Germany and France want Ukriane to win???
“Gates: A lot of US military aid to Ukraine ‘could have been done sooner’”
Probably should have also nuked Moscow long ago, but now they have S-400s on their roof-tops, so that option won’t work very well.
Oh well, live and learn!
“I think the key thing about the Abrams tank decision was that it unlocked the Germans.”Actually it was the other way around. Chancellor Scholz was under international pressure to send tanks and said he would do so when America sends tanks.
This megalomaniac, who used to make buggy software and who wants to send a sunshade in space to cool the Earth, has nothing worthwhile to tell the world
Maybe NATO's plan is to slow-bleed Russia, all while getting big increases in military spending on armaments (to replace our generous gifts to Ukraine). And this while expanding weapons-making potential, live-testing equipment, evaluating tactics in real time, developing and refining intelligence collection in real time, scaring Finland and Sweden into NATO membership, and frightening the rest of NATO into a closer alliance - and it won't cost NATO countries a single soldier.
All it will cost is money and Uncle Sam has a printing press, so it's all politically acceptable. Americans don't seem to mind inflation but they really hate body bags coming home on transport planes.
Think about it. If NATO plays this right, in a couple of years NATO will come out bigger, more united, more energy independent (Germany's finally learned the lesson that it can't be dependent on Russia for energy), and Russia will be bled out enough that it won't be able to carry forward it's campaign to reconstitute the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe for another generation. If Russia wins and Ukraine capitulates (which seems to me likely at this point) then Russia is still weakened enough that it won't try for Moldova and the Carpathians. If Ukraine wins it could join NATO and NATO owns all of Europe or at least the parts that really count. Who knows? Maybe Belarus will fall into NATO's hands and Russia will be relegated to a fringe, Asian power.
Hopefully, if NATO succeeds in this, Russia won't collapse entirely in order to hold down the lid on Central Asia and as a potential counter weight to a rapidly imploding China. In general, it sucks really bad when Russia collapses. Causes all sorts of problems. For at least a century.
It's cynical enough to make Machiavelli puke but I'm thinking this all redounds to the dubious benefit of NATO and there's somebody someplace at NATO HQ that has precisely this in mind.
The Guy who destroyed the Boyscouts and will probably be the guy to decide to let men play women’s sports in the NCAA weighs in on stuff.
Go away. Forever.
The puppets may look different, but the same hands are pulling the strings.
He is absolutely right. The US dithered. This is one of the failures of this administration.
If we had given more earlier, would we be giving less now?
I doubt it.
Gates, who in the **** do you think you are?
One of FNC's retired generals said 6 to 8 months before Abrams could be in the fight.
General Bill Gates is stepping up his war management, by slithering out of his zone of competence, in exactly the same way robert McNamara did in going from Ford MC and giving us the botched Vietnam “whiz kid” experience.
Gates is 100% a POS.