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05-04-24, 04:22 PM | #3361 |
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05-05-24, 12:58 PM | #3363 |
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05-06-24, 05:59 AM | #3364 |
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Continuing the war and the militarization of society and economy as precondition to prevent economic collapse. That goes at the direction I always was imagining when doubting the Russian collapse is so imminent that it would play a role for the Ukraine war. All you hopefuls: it won't, live with it. The war will not to be decided by a Russian economic collapse. Or an internal rebellion against Putin. Or his predecessor not being even more viscous than Putin himself was. Or the fairy queen turning things for the better. Russian economy and society will pay a heavy price for all this, I never doubted that. But I always said that this will not happen before plenty of water has flowed from the rivers into the sea. The Soviet Union was economically done already in the early 70s at the latest - and then still kept on floating until 1989, thats a two decades split. Dont bet money on that you will see it happening again during the rest of your lifespan. It could happen earlier than I expect, yes: due to a black swan, for example. But I don't give it a high probability at all. "Hope is not a strategy", said Israeli General Sharon.
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05-06-24, 09:14 AM | #3365 |
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05-06-24, 10:28 AM | #3366 |
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I do not see how Ukraine can throw the rudder around again. The US aid comes too late. I think and they write the fall of Tchassyv Yar is only a question of time. I have doubts that Charkiv can hold out, it will either fall to Russia - or suffer the fate of cities like Mariupol, Bakhmut and others: getting completely destroyed. Odessa is at risk, too. The city was claimed to be more Russian than any other outside Crimea before the war, and see how Putin nevertheless treats it. Any talk of a Ukrainian offensive in 2025 to me currently is nothing but daydreaming. The heavier population and economic weight of Russia now mercilessly makes itself felt. There is no escape from the math. Plus Russia has allies that are much less hesitent and scrupolous than the West is towards Ukraine. North Korea. China. Sanction breakers from the West. Big states like India, Brazil, South Africa who take at least a desinterested stand on Ukraine, and do busienss with Russia. Minimum 80% of the global population is not with Ukraine in this war. Things look very, very, very bad. I assume this summer Ukraine will not get away from a Russian offensive as "cheaply" as before.
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05-06-24, 12:09 PM | #3367 |
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Even though I have a sceptic view on the situation in Ukraine I keep up a hope for the best.
A totally free Ukraine...no way! The Ukrainians does not have the manpower and/or the material to retake the occupied areas. The question who pop-up is: Who of these two combatant will first demand a negotiation ? Markus
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05-06-24, 01:27 PM | #3369 |
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Serious accusation I must say
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05-06-24, 02:17 PM | #3371 |
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This person have an another view on the matter.
Edit Here's another person with a positive view on the Ukrainian situation End edit Markus
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05-06-24, 06:03 PM | #3372 |
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05-07-24, 04:39 AM | #3373 |
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Not really surprising, NATO must be expected to do homework like this in the background. I just wonder what the results are, considering how badly prepared for any sort of war European NATO states are.
[Frankfurter Rundschau] Brussels - NATO is said to have defined secret “red lines” for entering the war in Ukraine. Citing sources in the NATO leadership, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported that there is growing concern about a Russian provocation. The alliance is therefore examining possible action plans. At the same time, the report on Sunday (5 May) emphasized that Nato had no operational plans to actually send troops to Ukraine. It is currently assessing certain scenarios internally - and defining guidelines for direct war involvement. These are contingency plans, according to La Repubblica. The first “red line” is the direct or indirect involvement of third parties in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The focus is particularly on ensuring that no corridor is created between Kiev and Belarus. According to the report, the second scenario is a military provocation by Russia against the Baltic states, Poland or a targeted attack on Moldova. According to the report, it does not have to be an invasion of Russia - a military strike to test NATO could be enough for an intervention. According to the Italian newspaper, the aim is to be prepared for all scenarios. Nato has not yet commented on the report. The alleged setting of guidelines for a NATO intervention follows statements by French President Emmanuel Macron. He no longer explicitly ruled out the deployment of ground troops in Ukraine: “If the Russians were to break through the front lines, if there were a Ukrainian request - which is not the case today - then we should legitimately ask ourselves the question,” Macron said in an interview with the British magazine The Economist. “I'm not ruling anything out, because we have someone opposite who is not ruling anything out either,” he added, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nevertheless, the French head of state has already been criticized for his words within Europe.
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05-07-24, 07:47 AM | #3374 | |
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Criticized for which words? For saying France will send troops to Ukraine within a year. Or just recently saying “We are not at war with Russia or Russian people, and have no desire for regime change in Moscow” and then sending France’s ambassador to Putin inauguration. ?
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05-07-24, 10:35 AM | #3375 |
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If there is a war in which one takes a side - and NATO certainly has taken side with Ukraine and against Russia for sure - then reason commands to not take any option off the table prematurely like Europe and like Biden did. This way you only signal the enemy what he must do and which inhibitory standards he must break to secure his win. Telling early what all one will not do, under no circumstances, almost guarantees own defeat. One could as well say "Hey enemy, do this and this and this and that, and we will quit."
Keep the enemy guessing instead.
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