RE: Russia and Ukraine
February 25, 2022 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2022 at 12:39 pm by Anomalocaris.)
there is no such force at NATO’s disposal.
It is doubtful combined conventional force of US and rest of the NATO, given unlimited time to deploy, has the capability to defeat the available russian force in and around ukraine, without wider interdiction of the kind that will attack targets in russia proper and thus potentially trigger a nuclear war,
The reason why we, as in NATO led by the US, are here is we elected to create a situation that is well beyond our capability to bring to successful conclusion. Our inability to bring things to a successful conclusion is detected abs acted upon by russia, who otherwise stand to lose a great deal by letting the situation continue.
Think it this as Russia’s cuban missile crisis. The difference is russia backed down when it realized it can’t win in 1963. we, having been trumperized, declined to back down even though we also have mo chance of winning.
It is doubtful combined conventional force of US and rest of the NATO, given unlimited time to deploy, has the capability to defeat the available russian force in and around ukraine, without wider interdiction of the kind that will attack targets in russia proper and thus potentially trigger a nuclear war,
The reason why we, as in NATO led by the US, are here is we elected to create a situation that is well beyond our capability to bring to successful conclusion. Our inability to bring things to a successful conclusion is detected abs acted upon by russia, who otherwise stand to lose a great deal by letting the situation continue.
Think it this as Russia’s cuban missile crisis. The difference is russia backed down when it realized it can’t win in 1963. we, having been trumperized, declined to back down even though we also have mo chance of winning.
