RE: Russia and Ukraine
February 25, 2022 at 1:05 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2022 at 1:28 pm by Anomalocaris.)
actually, I doubt Russia formally declared war on ukraine.
No one has bothered to declare war before commencing hostilities since the end of WWII, least of all the US, which actually invaded more countries than any others countries since the end of WWII, and hasn’t bothered to precced a single invasion with a declaration since the attack on Okinawa during WWII. the concept of declaration of war as a formal beginning to the legitimate prosecution of war is probably dead.
Russia probably is making an effort to minimize civilian casualty, precisely because anti-russian sentiment is weaker than might be portrayed on western media, and they don’t want to antagonize parts of the l popukation that were not hostile. That likely account for the fact Kyiv hasn’t fallen yet.
Zelenski also acted oh a way that minimized the possibility of a protected guerilla action. If he wanted to draw out the conflict and bleed russia he should have, as the US told him him to, relocated his capital to western ukraine close to polish border which would be harder for Russian troops to get to and easier for NATO to infiltrate support to. Russia probably had russia’s ideal adversary in the hapless Zelenski.
I think although Putin was prepared to accept the consequence and attack Ukraine right from day one, in fact he did not actually make up his mind to attack ukraine until February. Zelensky’s statement that ukraine needs to acquire nuclear weapons to defend itself would by itself probably have been enough to clinch Putin’s decision to invade.
No one has bothered to declare war before commencing hostilities since the end of WWII, least of all the US, which actually invaded more countries than any others countries since the end of WWII, and hasn’t bothered to precced a single invasion with a declaration since the attack on Okinawa during WWII. the concept of declaration of war as a formal beginning to the legitimate prosecution of war is probably dead.
Russia probably is making an effort to minimize civilian casualty, precisely because anti-russian sentiment is weaker than might be portrayed on western media, and they don’t want to antagonize parts of the l popukation that were not hostile. That likely account for the fact Kyiv hasn’t fallen yet.
Zelenski also acted oh a way that minimized the possibility of a protected guerilla action. If he wanted to draw out the conflict and bleed russia he should have, as the US told him him to, relocated his capital to western ukraine close to polish border which would be harder for Russian troops to get to and easier for NATO to infiltrate support to. Russia probably had russia’s ideal adversary in the hapless Zelenski.
I think although Putin was prepared to accept the consequence and attack Ukraine right from day one, in fact he did not actually make up his mind to attack ukraine until February. Zelensky’s statement that ukraine needs to acquire nuclear weapons to defend itself would by itself probably have been enough to clinch Putin’s decision to invade.
