Not even close...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Not even close...
Reagan hated communist Russia. From what I have gleaned about Russian politics the countries “constitution” was pretty much usurped by Putin...he is more of a “turncoat” democratically elected leader, in that he can control most of the political, and media power in his country. The area of Ukraine/Crimea has been fought about for a very long time. Crimean was from1853-1856.
Now it looks like our country is being controlled by many mini-Putins in government,schools and media. We need to get rid of them before we worry about Russia.
Crimean was = “Crimean war”
The Soviet Union identifies as Russia.
it really is revealing how much a paper tiger Russia is if you take away the fact that nukes could fly over this.
More dangerous than Joe Biden?
The most dangerous fool is a FReeper who posts Thomas Friedman because he agrees with him.
The world’s most dangerous fool??
Umm… he’s got a LOT of tough competition for that title - just here in the US government…
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