Just watched biden rally his people and flash his balls ending on 'go get him" This ain't no fuckin movie. It's all good and well winding putin up but what is all this big talk gonna do to save lives. Same with our bumbling clown leader. Big talk. How actually is anyone going to stop the killing. I can't see a way right now. All this whooping everytime biden says a word . Cringe
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The battle for
Ukraine unfolding before our eyes has the potential to be the most
transformational event in Europe since World War II and the most
dangerous confrontation for the world since the Cuban missile crisis. I
see three possible scenarios for how this story ends. I call them “the
full-blown disaster,” “the dirty compromise” and “salvation.”
The
disaster scenario is now underway: Unless Vladimir Putin has a change
of heart or can be deterred by the West, he appears willing to kill as
many people as necessary and destroy as much of Ukraine’s infrastructure
as necessary to erase Ukraine as a free independent state and culture
and wipe out its leadership. This scenario could lead to war crimes the
scale of which has not been seen in Europe since the Nazis — crimes that
would make Vladimir Putin, his cronies and Russia as a country all
global pariahs.
The wired, globalized
world has never had to deal with a leader accused of this level of war
crimes whose country has a landmass spanning 11 time zones, is one of
the world’s largest oil and gas providers and possesses the biggest arsenal of nuclear warheads of any nation.
Every
day that Putin refuses to stop we get closer to the gates of hell. With
each TikTok video and cellphone shot showing Putin’s brutality, it will
be harder and harder for the world to look away. But to intervene risks
igniting the first war in the heart of Europe involving nuclear
weapons. And to let Putin reduce Kyiv to rubble, with thousands of dead —
the way he conquered Aleppo and Grozny — would allow him to create a
European Afghanistan, spilling out refugees and chaos.
Putin doesn’t
have the ability to install a puppet leader in Ukraine and just leave
him there: A puppet would face a permanent insurrection. So, Russia
needs to permanently station tens of thousands of troops in Ukraine to
control it — and Ukrainians will be shooting at them every day. It is
terrifying how little Putin has thought about how his war ends.
I
wish Putin was just motivated by a desire to keep Ukraine out of NATO;
his appetite has grown far beyond that. Putin is in the grip of magical
thinking: As Fiona Hill, one of America’s premier Russia experts, said
in an interview published on Monday by Politico, he believes that there is something called “Russky Mir,”
or a “Russian World”; that Ukrainians and Russians are “one people”;
and that it is his mission to engineer “regathering all the
Russian-speakers in different places that belonged at some point to the
Russian tsardom.”
To realize that
vision, Putin believes that it is his right and duty to challenge what
Hill calls “a rules-based system in which the things that countries want
are not taken by force.” And if the U.S. and its allies attempt to get
in Putin’s way — or try to humiliate him the way they did Russia at the
end of the Cold War — he is signaling that he is ready to out-crazy us.
Or, as Putin warned
the other day before putting his nuclear force on high alert, anyone
who gets in his way should be ready to face “consequences they have
never seen” before. Add to all this the mounting reports questioning Putin’s state of mind and you have a terrifying cocktail.
The
second scenario is that somehow the Ukrainian military and people are
able to hold out long enough against the Russian blitzkrieg, and that
the economic sanctions start deeply wounding Putin’s economy, so that
both sides feel compelled to accept a dirty compromise. Its rough
contours would be that in return for a cease-fire and the withdrawal of
Russian troops, Ukraine’s eastern enclaves now under de facto Russian
control would be formally ceded to Russia, while Ukraine would
explicitly vow never to join NATO. At the same time, the U.S. and its
allies would agree to lift all recently imposed economic sanctions on
Russia.
This scenario remains unlikely
because it would require Putin to basically admit that he was unable to
achieve his vision of reabsorbing Ukraine into the Russian motherland,
after paying a huge price in terms of his economy and the deaths of
Russian soldiers. Moreover, Ukraine would have to formally cede part of
its territory and accept that it was going to be a permanent no man’s
land between Russia and the rest of Europe — though it would at least
maintain its nominal independence. It would also require everyone to
ignore the lesson already learned that Putin can’t be trusted to leave
Ukraine alone.
Finally, the
least likely scenario but the one that could have the best outcome is
that the Russian people demonstrate as much bravery and commitment to
their own freedom as the Ukrainian people have shown to theirs, and
deliver salvation by ousting Putin from office.
Many
Russians must be starting to worry that as long as Putin is their
present and future leader, they have no future. Thousands are taking to
the streets to protest Putin’s insane war. They’re doing this at the
risk of their own safety. And though too soon to tell, their pushback
does make you wonder if the so-called fear barrier is being broken, and
if a mass movement could eventually end Putin’s reign.
Even for Russians staying quiet, life is suddenly being disrupted in ways small and large. As my colleague Mark Landler put it:
“In Switzerland, the Lucerne music festival canceled two symphony
concerts featuring a Russian maestro. In Australia, the national swim
team said it would boycott a world championship meet in Russia. At the
Magic Mountain Ski Area in Vermont, a bartender poured bottles of
Stolichnaya vodka down the drain. From culture to commerce, sports to
travel, the world is shunning Russia in myriad ways to protest President
Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.”
And
then there is the new “Putin tax” that every Russian will have to pay
indefinitely for the pleasure of having him as their president. I am
talking about the effects of the mounting sanctions being imposed on
Russia by the civilized world. On Monday, the Russian central bank had
to keep the Russian stock market closed to prevent a panicked meltdown
and was forced to raise its benchmark interest rate in one day to 20
percent from 9.5 percent to encourage people to hold rubles. Even then
the ruble nose-dived by about 30 percent against the dollar — it’s now worth less than 1 U.S. cent.
For
all of these reasons I have to hope that at this very moment there are
some very senior Russian intelligence and military officials, close to
Putin, who are meeting in some closet in the Kremlin and saying out loud
what they all must be thinking: Either Putin has lost a step as a
strategist during his isolation in the pandemic or he is in deep denial
over how badly he has miscalculated the strength of Ukrainians, America,
its allies and global civil society at large.
If
Putin goes ahead and levels Ukraine’s biggest cities and its capital,
Kyiv, he and all of his cronies will never again see the London and New
York apartments they bought with all their stolen riches. There will be
no more Davos and no more St. Moritz. Instead, they will all be locked
in a big prison called Russia — with the freedom to travel only to
Syria, Crimea, Belarus, North Korea and China, maybe. Their kids will be
thrown out of private boarding schools from Switzerland to Oxford.
Either
they collaborate to oust Putin or they will all share his isolation
cell. The same for the larger Russian public. I realize that this last
scenario is the most unlikely of them all, but it is the one that holds
the most promise of achieving the dream that we dreamed when the Berlin
Wall fell in 1989 — a Europe whole and free, from the British Isles to
Vladivostok.
Just watched biden rally his people and flash his balls ending on 'go get him" This ain't no fuckin movie. It's all good and well winding putin up but what is all this big talk gonna do to save lives. Same with our bumbling clown leader. Big talk. How actually is anyone going to stop the killing. I can't see a way right now. All this whooping everytime biden says a word . Cringe
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I get that some might feel abandoned but the US can't go to war against Russia. There is a fine line there.
And that will be a feature, not a bug, for Russia in this onslaught. Make Ukees grow apathetic and bitter at the West's response (or lack thereof), then long-term you don't make Ukraine a part of Russia but you keep them "independent" and instill a pro-Russian regime in Kyiv.
Just watched biden rally his people and flash his balls ending on 'go get him" This ain't no fuckin movie. It's all good and well winding putin up but what is all this big talk gonna do to save lives. Same with our bumbling clown leader. Big talk. How actually is anyone going to stop the killing. I can't see a way right now. All this whooping everytime biden says a word . Cringe
You're not necessarily wrong, but most people (especially Americans) are fucking dumb and need to be talked to like life is a movie. And that is who he's talking to.
it's got to be incredibly frustrating to be ukrainian right now, basically being told you're on your own.
On their own? I thought the majority of the world has rallied to their cause? US Congress is preparing a $6B aid package.
a sign or a hashtag does nothing. financial aid won't help keep the russian army from murdering civilians and destroying their infrastructure.
yes, they are essentially on their own at the moment.
Maybe say they’re on their own militarily? But I don’t think that for a moment. If you don’t think the western powers don’t have special ops on the ground assisting, then I’m not sure that you understand modern warfare and what our intelligence agencies do in times like these.
. If you don’t think the western powers don’t have special ops on the ground assisting, then I’m not sure that you understand modern warfare and what our intelligence agencies do in times like these.
Lol.
Look at Jack Ryan over here.
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
. If you don’t think the western powers don’t have special ops on the ground assisting, then I’m not sure that you understand modern warfare and what our intelligence agencies do in times like these.
Lol.
Look at Jack Ryan over here.
What are the Swedes doing again? You think your intelligence agencies have boots on the ground? Do you think all diplomatic staff are there for issuing visas and ribbon cuttings?
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. If you don’t think the western powers don’t have special ops on the ground assisting, then I’m not sure that you understand modern warfare and what our intelligence agencies do in times like these.
Lol.
Look at Jack Ryan over here.
What are the Swedes doing again?
I think many are right now waiting for the clock to strike 17, so they can leave work.
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"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
I think saying "essentially" and "basically" was clear enough.
so Putin warned that any military assistance would result in catastrophic consequences. the US would be willing to risk that?
Yes, I’d be willing to bet that our intelligence agencies are purchasing Soviet produced arms on the world arms bizarre and are clandestinely supplying them to Ukraine. Maybe asking countries like Poland to supply them as we pay or resupply them. Plausible deniability.
Of course they are on their own The children getting killed and the men not allowed to leave with the lucky ones who can get out are completely alone. Not money or guns or sanctions make them not alone. They face death and loss and never seeing thier wives and kids alone.
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This ain't no fuckin movie.
It's all good and well winding putin up but what is all this big talk gonna do to save lives. Same with our bumbling clown leader. Big talk.
How actually is anyone going to stop the killing. I can't see a way right now. All this whooping everytime biden says a word . Cringe
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EDIT: His angle on the soldiers being duped is something I hope comes to fruition but with dictators rarely does.
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Look at Jack Ryan over here.
so Putin warned that any military assistance would result in catastrophic consequences. the US would be willing to risk that?
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The children getting killed and the men not allowed to leave with the lucky ones who can get out are completely alone. Not money or guns or sanctions make them not alone. They face death and loss and never seeing thier wives and kids alone.
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