Posted on 12/12/2022 1:33:15 PM PST by dennisw
“You really should take the time to listen to the conversation between Colonel Douglas Macgregor and Dr. Michael Vlahos.”
I will, if you can convince me that Doug has an IQ above 20.
If you can show me one article from the early days of the war that he wrote which is not embarrassingly wrong I will watch.
Here is where you can find them:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/doug-mac/
Any one from Feb through Apr where he correctly calls how the war will unfold. And doesn’t have laugh lines like:
“Will NATO survive its ignominious retreat in the face of superior Russian military power?”
You comment like a safe space leftists. Call the whambulance.
Putin’s ego is hyper invested in Crimea. It will be difficult to defeat the Russians there. Though Crimea needs fresh water from the mainland and this could be shutoff. Crimea is arid, believe it or not.
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Crimea is an arid peninsula with insufficient rainfall to meet the needs of its 2 million people. In 1971, the Soviet Union built the 70-mile-long North Crimea Canal to bring water south from Nova Kakhovka on the Dnipr river. The canal, which continues for another 170 miles to the eastern tip of Crimea, met 70-85 percent of the peninsula’s water needs, with most of the water being used for agriculture.
After the Russian annexation in 2014, Ukraine dammed the canal ten miles north of the Crimean border. Since then, Crimea has been drawing water from the aquifer, which is now running dry and becoming polluted. Climate change has brought decreased rainfall and higher temperatures to the region, exacerbating the water deficit.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/18/why-crimea-is-the-key-to-the-ukraine-war/
This isn't the same Soviet Army that conquered Eastern Europe at the end of World War II.
Now you're catching on.
What happens after ‘the next several months’?
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The winter ice will melt and people will be busy digging out masses of frozen mobnicks
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