We will go to war over it if and when Putin decides to strike our supply efforts and those of NATO itself, like in Poland for instance. The people who are going to stop him are more than likely going to be the Russians themselves.
Well, you can't make a revolution or a coup out of popular discontent alone. There has to be some organized faction that leads it. The Bolsheviks got control of Russia because they were prepared to step in and take over when a moment of government weakness arose.
Nobody has our level of capability to "listen in." That capability is way beyond the understanding of the average person. It has to be driving Putin farther out of his mind than he has himself. In addition to the above, you don't understand military priorities. The first thing we did in the Iraq war was to shut down all electronic communication between Saddam and his commanders in the field. Every electronic emission was a target. The same was true in WWII. Communication and supply are the primary targets in war. In Ukraine, we are the main source of hostile intelligence and supply. All I'm saying is, we have to be ready for it when Putin finally figures out what to do about it. What can he do about it right now, I don't know. Maybe we'll find out today after his big speech and parade.
How well did that strategy work in Iraq?
The other element to all of this is the Russian people, a majority of whom are behind Putin's effort. Obviously because the facts of what is happening in Ukraine are being withheld from them. The Genesis of our involvement in WWII came about largely because of our military support of Britain which in the fair mind was a violation of our neutrality, not that it was wrong, but that it was a logical result. The Tripartite Pact signed in Berlin 1940 was designed to deter our support of Britain.
It's obvious they feel they have succeeded in controlling the narrative inside Russia to an extent that allows them to pull it off with a straight face.
So well we had to actually tell the grunts to slow the fuck down because they were rolling them faster than we could keep up. The war in Iraq was incredibly short.
But, as it turns out, sometimes it is much easier to conquer a country than to rule it.
Yah, getting the truth to the Russian people is a delima.
Did you mean it's a llama? Because that's just weird
Spellcheck and predictive text not berry berry good to MEEEE
I think it might very well be his top people who throw him out if it happens. The people themselves by and large are ignorant of what is really happening in Ukraine, but that is changing.
A lot of Russian civilians have relatives in the army who can tell them the true story.
20,000 wooden coffins and three times that number of wounded coming home here and there may allow the Russian people to communicate and put two and two together. But will Putin allow them to brought home?
What else can he do with them?
But you are now supplying attack weapons to Ukraine
Again, that's not the same as American boots on the ground.
It’s still an escalation from defensive weapons only. Don’t worry though the elites have their bunkers to protect them when/if the nukes come
They'd better update those, they're Cold War relics.
