crod Tue Sep 13, 2022 10:18 am
billybatts91 wrote:
I'm pro-Russian but come on....we need to face reality here. You're talking about 30 countries + Ukraine vs. Two (Russia and Belarus). They have a lot of money, a lot of people and a lot of sophisticated weaponry. No single country could go up against something like that, I'm just being realistic, that assessment has nothing to do with what has happened in Kharkov recently. Without nukes, Russia would be screwed.
it's not as simple as that:
1. The Ukraine is not a member of NATO, therefore under the charter they cannot just jump in all guns blazing. It is one of the reasons why Russia attacked because membership was becoming a thing, post membership, Russia would be screwed because they couldn't attack a NATO member. The clock was ticking;
2. It's the last thing on the mind of any country for the simple reason it would very likely bring us closer to WW3 and the destruction of the planet;
3. They don't need to get full on involved (which they cannot), they 're causing headaches as it is from afar with political, $$$ and military support.
When the conflict began Putin on television made remarks about red lines this and red lines that. He honored none of them. The West saw this rightly as weakness and this has confounded some of the problems we are seeing today particularly is some of the systems now being delivered to the Ukraine.
Again for whatever reason unknown to any of us here, they have supported that region with very little, it was to the detriment of allied forces in the region. Had they supported it with the likes of what they have in Kherson the outcome would have been different; but they didn't, so postcards to the Kremlin for a please explain as you, me and the world are now scratching their heads asking plainly, WTF?
Or it is and I'm not discrediting FP's thoughts on all this are and that it is part of the plan...I hope he is right but the optics look poor right now and took the shine of the Uki losses down south imo and provided much morale boosting flag raining photo ops.
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