Posted on 02/24/2023 8:12:47 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Nothing can stop Putin since Biden gave him the money to wage all the war he wants.
Stupid newsweek.
He is the last president of Russia and the deputy chair of security.
Our journalism is third world.
Designed to arouse emotions, not report facts.
Best places to read international news...
https://orientalreview.org
https://thecradle.co
https://thegrayzone.com
https://strategic-culture.org
https://www.thepostil.com
” Why would anyone believe that? They are having enough trouble with Ukraine.”
Exactly. Its garbage news.
Medvedev has a mouth and then someone interprets something with a poor understanding of Russian culture/language.
Ten hype it to the max, throw in some extra crap and hope you can sell enough to keep your job.
” Why would anyone believe that? They are having enough trouble with Ukraine.”
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Exactly. Its garbage news.
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There are various possibilities. It’s probably just fodder for domestic propaganda, to raise morale and support for the war and bolster national pride.
It also could be trolling. Trolling Europe and NATO. Maybe trolling Poland to see if they will overreact somehow.
I’ve said before, it makes no strategic sense to keep trolling Poland if you have future plans to invade. You’re just giving them a chance to prepare their military and defensive capabilities.
The third possibility, similar to the trolling scenario, is that they want an escalation. Not with Poland, but with NATO and Ukraine. They may feel that being bogged in a mostly conventional war isn’t working and an escalation would give them more tools. They will need an excuse though, so they can claim they didn’t escalate. So they will troll for an over-reaction and perhaps even plan false-flag ops.
Has Medvedev ever drawn a sober breath? The guy always looks gassed.
Unlike the rest of Europe, Poland has been spending 5% of its gross national product on defense, re-arming (largely with state of the art weapons systems obtained from S. Korea), and doubling the size of its army. It takes the threat posed by Russia very seriously.
In a purely conventional war, Poland could handle Russia, at least for a time.
“While one side fearmongers, the other searches for peace.”
YOUR side has the fearmongers: NATO is threatening Russia! Ukraine is threatening Russia! Russia faces an existential threat! Russia threatens to use nukes!
If NATO was such a threat to Russia, NATO would have attacked Russia in the 1990s. That didn’t happen. Why? Because NATO poses no offensive threat to Russia.
Still waiting on that Russian smart phone there Demitry.
exactly.
“Russia should return the parts of Poland to Poland that Russia stole in 1945. Poland should return the parts of Germany to Germany that Poland stole in 1945.”
Well, Poland didn’t “steal” anything: The WWII victors GAVE parts of Germany to Poland after the war, kind of like reparations.
In crucial military technologies, Russia is the world’s leader. For example, on December 23rd, South Front headlined “KINZHAL HYPERSONIC MISSILE PROVED TO BE UNSTOPPABLE IN UKRAINE: RUSSIAN MILITARY CHIEF”, and it’s no mere brag by Russia; it is true. (Such missiles would be unstoppable in any nation.) Furthermore, on November 14th, I headlined “U.S. GAO Finds Failure Is the Norm in U.S. Military Aircrafts”. That’s what happens when the military manufacturers serve their investors instead of the public. On June 17th, U.S. military expert Alex Vershinin headlined at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute, “The Return of Industrial Warfare”, about how inferior America is militarily as compared to Russia, and he argued — without mentioning or even showing any awareness of it — that America’s replacing industrialization (the manufacturing economy) with financialization (the financial-services economy) had done this (hollowed-out America’s military).
I would argue more specifically that the resultant intense corruptness in America’s military has done this. The U.S. ‘Defense’ Department is the ONLY federal Department that can’t be audited. Its opportunities for graft are unlimited (or else are limited only by the value of the dollar, which would mean that the dollar’s international value is bound to crash and collapse some day, as having been the ultimate Ponzi scheme). In fact, trillions of dollars in spending by the Pentagon simply cannot be traced. Nobody knows, or can find out, where it went. However, already on 3 June 2016, America’s National Interest magazine had headlined “Russia vs. America: A Nuclear Bomber Showdown: Who wins?” and answered that Russia was way ahead and would likely remain so: “the situation is not going to change in the foreseeable perspective — each step of the parties is followed by a quick response. Thus, as long as the United States develops its antimissile defense, Russia is going to develop ICBMs and warheads likely to penetrate this antimissile defense. The only beneficiaries in such a situation are weapons manufacturers.”
And, as things have turned out, even Russia’s antimissile defense systems are superior to America’s. However, to America’s rulers — its billionaires — their net worth is more important, and their system is very successful at increasing that.
Another reason why Russia gets far higher bang for each military buck spent is that whereas America’s military is designed to expand the American empire throughout the world, Russia’s is designed to protect the nation’s sovereign independence and to ward-off America’s constant (ever since 1945) aim to turn Russia into yet another U.S. ‘ally’ (vassal-nation). Whereas America’s billionaires drive America’s military for increasing their empire, the Russian population drive Russia’s military for the nation’s protection and very survival.
That’s a fact.
Russia would have to create military dictatorships in Lithuania and Belarus before it even considered attacking Poland.
A Wall Street Journal editorial this week highlighted the absurdity of America's strategy in Ukraine. The Journal urges the U.S. to provide more advanced weapons to Ukraine, including a longer-range missile system, which Biden is reluctant to do. Ukraine, with America's help, must win, argues the Journal, in part to thwart a developing Russia-China-Iran axis of power. The Journal doesn't seem to notice that U.S. and Western support for Ukraine's military has been the impetus for this incipient axis.
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In war, telling your enemy you'll push only so hard is a serious handicap. It cedes a critical tactical advantage to the Russians, because you can be sure Putin won't hesitate to escalate, if he thinks he might lose in Ukraine, and compel us to retreat. He can force America's hand by announcing that Western support for Ukraine violates Russia's sovereignty, backing it up with a significant escalation. ###
I suspect that the Russians believe he'd fold like a cheap suit. Biden can hardly afford to meaningfully respond to a major escalation by Russia over Ukraine, given the threat of Russia's nukes and weak support for the war at home.
In short, Putin can call the bluff of Western commitment in Ukraine and force us to back off. So far, he hasn't needed to. But if he feels Ukraine slipping away, he undoubtedly will. At bottom, our support for Ukraine — beyond just costing billions of dollars — will only bolster the growing perception of America as a foolish and feckless superpower.
—> I blame the current administration of the United States.
Began under Obama…
He’s Russian what do you expect?
Thank you for the links.
Please explain the legal mechanics of how this happened, with special attention to the "spoils of war" doctrine.
LOL. He’ll need to borrow another nation’s army to do it...Russia is tapped out and flailing against Ukraine.
Poles: Oh, not this again. **arms and trains population.
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