Posted on 05/12/2023 4:24:20 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
I have not written much about the war in Ukraine lately because so little has changed strategically since the first few months of this conflict, when three overarching facts pretty much drove everything — and still do.
Fact No. 1: As I wrote at the outset, when a war of this magnitude begins, the key question you ask yourself as a foreign affairs columnist is very simple: Where should I be? Should I be in Kyiv, the Donbas, Crimea, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels or Washington?
And from the start of this war, there has been only one place to be to understand its timing and direction — and that’s in Vladimir Putin’s head. Unfortunately, Putin doesn’t grant visas to his brain.
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Which leads to fact No. 2: Putin never had a Plan B. It’s now obvious that he thought he was going to waltz into Kyiv, seize it in a week, install a lackey as president, tuck Ukraine into his pocket and put to an end any further European Union, NATO or Western cultural expansion toward Russia. He would then cast his shadow across all of Europe.
This leads to fact No. 3: Putin has put himself in a situation where he can’t win, can’t lose and can’t stop. There’s no way he can seize control of all of Ukraine anymore. But at the same time, he can’t afford to be defeated, after all the Russian lives and treasure he has expended. So he can’t stop.
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Which makes this one of the sickest, most senseless wars in modern times — a leader destroying another country’s civilian infrastructure until it gives him enough cover to hide the fact that he’s been a towering fool.
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Russia is getting its arse kicked by the Fourth Reich. It isn’t a threat to anyone.
Putin, or biden?
People in Texas feel like the Germans on D-Day.
I nominate the unelected dictator Brandon for that title.
He misspelled Joe Biden.
More appropriately, like the Alamo day 13.
Vladimir Putin Is the World’s Most Dangerous Fool
I’ll raise you a Joe Biden and 2 democrat senators.
Disagree...
Biden has that title locked up...
Followed closely by Kim Jong Un’s daughter Kim Chu-ae...
IMHO...
I wouldn’t consider him a fool at all. Want fools? Look at America’s elected leaders then look at the people who voted them to lead.
BS Putin is not in the top three
Biden, Macron and Zelinsky are worse
Did you hear that the jockey who won the Kentucky Derby refused to go to the White House?
He said if he’d wanted to see a horse’s ass he’d have come in second.
Hands down. Poopy pants holds the title.
Might be true
But we have the world’s stupidest fool.
Actually Thomas L. Friedman and Timber Rattler are the world’s most dangerous fools.
-fJRoberts-
I second that nomination!
LOL!
i consider the source... and must conclude he’s doing things right.
Now the joke called Friedman is a reliable source. Lolol. These Uke Intel Ops are utterly transparent.
That sounds exactly like how the media describes Trump. Fascism is the term that describes both.
I beg to disagree. Biden holds that slot.
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