Readers who happen to be lawyers might be expecting a legally related post, but … no. This is a Ukraine - Russia update, mostly brief links. The title comes from a phrase that Lt Col Daniel Davis uses in this brief video interview: there’s “no rational basis” for continuing this insane war against Russia in Ukraine in the expectation that Ukraine will somehow “win”:
Correct me if I'm mistaken but hasn't China been busy building it's industrial military base capability for some time now? Russia for sure. Wonder if we should be prepared for "air rifle" warfare. Plenty of oxygen to breath around the globe. Climatologists would go for this. Would it be a fair fight? I mean we in the West produce so much "hot" air it might be a blowout. (no pun intended).
The Blithy Lithy's act as EU and US stooges. Thinking they're in the know on how to combat Russia. They are completely embarrassing themselves.
Last, American and Western policymakers are all inbred goo. They all think alike based on the same assumptions for years and years. No one challenges them. Think tanks need to challenge their hypothesis or we're in big trouble.
Smith's recap of US assumptions about Russia can be summed up in one sentence: "We thought Russia was Libya". They really thought they could just slap Putin around and he would submit. This is a mistake that may put mushroom clouds on our horizon. Why are these "experts" making mistakes that a 10-year-old could see are stupid and dangerous?
Has it occurred to any of these “geniuses” that Putin could bring the EU and the US to their collective knees by withholding gas, strategic metals and a host of other commodities without ever firing a shot?
Do they not understand that they have “outsourced” this country to such a degree that the “sleeping giant” that Yamamoto feared after Pearl Harbor is now nothing more than a hollowed out shell? The author is spot on, we had best rethink the idea that we can go toe to toe with a country that still possesses the industrial might to call our bluff.
This whole episode is so irrational that it beggars the imagination and defies explanation by any normal human standards.
Off topic, but have you seen the “behavioral notes” that Biden’s handlers have him using? U n b l I e v a b l e! We are truly in deep doo doo folks.
Correct me if I'm mistaken but hasn't China been busy building it's industrial military base capability for some time now? Russia for sure. Wonder if we should be prepared for "air rifle" warfare. Plenty of oxygen to breath around the globe. Climatologists would go for this. Would it be a fair fight? I mean we in the West produce so much "hot" air it might be a blowout. (no pun intended).
The Blithy Lithy's act as EU and US stooges. Thinking they're in the know on how to combat Russia. They are completely embarrassing themselves.
Last, American and Western policymakers are all inbred goo. They all think alike based on the same assumptions for years and years. No one challenges them. Think tanks need to challenge their hypothesis or we're in big trouble.
Smith's recap of US assumptions about Russia can be summed up in one sentence: "We thought Russia was Libya". They really thought they could just slap Putin around and he would submit. This is a mistake that may put mushroom clouds on our horizon. Why are these "experts" making mistakes that a 10-year-old could see are stupid and dangerous?
Has it occurred to any of these “geniuses” that Putin could bring the EU and the US to their collective knees by withholding gas, strategic metals and a host of other commodities without ever firing a shot?
Do they not understand that they have “outsourced” this country to such a degree that the “sleeping giant” that Yamamoto feared after Pearl Harbor is now nothing more than a hollowed out shell? The author is spot on, we had best rethink the idea that we can go toe to toe with a country that still possesses the industrial might to call our bluff.
This whole episode is so irrational that it beggars the imagination and defies explanation by any normal human standards.
Off topic, but have you seen the “behavioral notes” that Biden’s handlers have him using? U n b l I e v a b l e! We are truly in deep doo doo folks.
If you have the time ...
https://odysee.com/THE-EU-KILLS-ITSELF-2:805541f2608b1caafbd15158e068ee923992a9d4
All those folks who cashed in on offshoreing our Industrial Base hopefully will be in the front lines.
If Russia has now taken the majority of the Ukrainian Heavy Industry Areas, 80% I have read, I assume that is impacting their ammunition production.
The backtracking by the Lithuanians is amusing. I believe the Russian Threat was more important, than " international law still has meaning".