RE: Proxy war in Ukraine?
November 7, 2022 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2022 at 2:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 7, 2022 at 2:29 pm)Helios Wrote: 2. Too bad it's not in vain and a Trillion dollars is chicken feed to the wealthiest nation on earth. And no one's desires are shaping beliefs here.
-a rounding error in our defense budget - one that we and many others are getting a whole hell of alot out of - though that does seem to get lost in denying ukraine agency and credit and pretending that russian victory is..basically, a law of the universe.....
Show of hands, does anyone here think china isn't watching this thinking that they just -might- need to come up with a better plan should they ever pull the trigger on their own territorial ambitions? Obviously, putin believed that western support could be quickly collapsed..and it may yet be collapsed, no doubt about that...but it's already lasted too long, from the other end, to have made the plan they went in with credible.
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