Who thinks the Russians are somehow unaware of this reality? Putin has made no bones about this. But now the Western public is being treated to this knowledge from its own ruling class:
-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - -- @GeromanAT
me: there are NATO soldiers in Ukraine
NATO shills: no that is Russian propaganda Scholz:
Here’s question. Would you, if you were a “leader” of a Western country, be helping Ukraine fire missiles into Russia if this is your actual defense status?
-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - -- reposted
LMAO: Royal NAVY may has to sell an aircraft carrier? The British navy continues to take Ls.
Humorously, Germany’s Scholz said Germany isn’t at war with Russia and won’t send missiles to Ukraine because they would need to be operated by German soldiers—and that would mean war. Then:
RT BOSS SCOLDS #SCHOLZ: Margarita Simonyan says she is in possession of a recording in which German officers discuss blowing up #CrimeanBridge.
This comes after #German Chancellor Scholz vows that #Germany is not party to the conflict.
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Listen to the Bundeswehr officers here. Apparently one of them was in a hotel in Singapore. As if the Russians couldn’t pick his conversation up.
All this is very awkward for the West at this juncture. Russia will be inclined to drive a very hard bargain when bargain time comes—as it will. So what’s the response? Double down. Sounds like the definition of insanity:
Ukraine has no satelite capacity, no long-range weapons, no high altitude recon capabilities, and no expertise in the operation of any of the above. Absolutely Zero. Imagine if this headline was reversed?
"Russian military chief helped destroy British War Ships?"
Mikael Valtersson provides a nice summary of the peace deal that Ukraine could have had—but for the West’s insistence on war with Russia.
Meanwhile, in the real world, there’s open talk of a Ukrainian “collapse” by summer:
British military haven't defended the UK or anyone else since WWIII; they are paid killers. If they are outside their homeland, then kill them all and lose the bodies. US forces aren't that different. We had an opportunity to withdraw our forces from Europe in 1991. The US doesn't fight defensive wars
The overwhelming consensus here at MiH, and elsewhere among those who follow the analysis of critics of US and NATO Ukraine policy, seems to be that the war is lost (to Ukraine) and that defeat and capitulation are imminent. I would like to agree, but I am not so sure.
Take a look at the views expressed by this panel of Brookings Institution 'scholars', a proxy, of course for the views of many in the Biden Administration, the Uniparty, the Deep State, the Intelligence Community, the Military Industrial Complex, and their scriveners in the MSM. To a wo/man, the panel agrees that Russia is, in fact, not winning.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/does-the-wests-ukraine-policy-need-a-reality-check-a-brookings-debate/
To me, this means that powerful forces in the United States are not prepared to concede the 'Ukraine project' now or any time in the near future, because it is in perfect alignment with the United States' most fundamental foreign policies: to remain the Global Hegemon and champion of the Rules-Based Order, to use military force rather than diplomacy to retain power globally, to subsidize the military/industrial complex to support the US economy, and to weaken and force regime change in Russia.
As long as the US Government has a currency printing press which can finance operations with billions of fiat dollars, a techno-enabled war machine which largely insulates American troops from bloody conflict, and a voting public and Congress willing to permit the President to conduct foreign and military policy (including widespread covert operations) without transparency or meaningful oversight, I really don't see why the status quo will change...even as Russia chalks up incremental successes in the Ukrainian meat-grinder.
I suspect President Trump understands this dilemma. A member of my own generation, many of whose views about life, fairness and freedom were forged in the Vietnam years, I believe President Trump is deeply opposed to using the horrors of war to achieve political goals. In this respect I do believe that President Trump is, in fact, a "good" man. But, as he must have learned during his first term, the immense power of the forces dependent on the continuation of US foreign policy as it has developed since WWII, is enormous. It not only includes our Deep State, which was able to repeatedly frustrate Trump during his first term, but the financial power of Big Tech and much of Wall Street. As well as the now decades-long indoctrination of our schools and universities and the relentless power of the propaganda machine which our major newspapers and networks have become.
I pray that President Trump finds a way to navigate through these minefields to re-election, and that if he is re-elected, he finds a way to end the NeoCon wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and re-direct US policy towards a multi-polar world of peaceful market competition and wide-spread improved standards of living both here in the US and around the world.