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philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:30 am https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -NATO.html

Putin now threatens to use nukes against the West.

Not the first time he’s threatened it.

Paladin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:10 pm

Grayling813 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:35 pm Complications of the Ukraine War
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/complica ... e=hs_email

According to what we hear from the White House and from the television networks, the issues at stake in the Ukraine War are simple. They concern the evil of Vladimir Putin, who woke up one morning and chose, whether out of sadism or insanity, to wreak unspeakable violence on his neighbors. Putin’s actions are described as an “unprovoked invasion” of a noble democracy by a corrupt autocracy. How we ought to respond is assumed to be a no-brainer. The United States has pledged vast quantities of its deadliest weaponry, along with aid that is likely to run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and has brought large parts of the world economy—particularly in Europe—to a standstill.

Now, whenever people in power tell you something is a no-brainer, there’s a good chance that it’s a brainer. And the Ukraine War is more complicated than we’ve been led to assume.

Thanks for posting this!

Yeah, I’m on the Imprimis mailing list, and I read every issue. I consider it a must-read. I saw an excellent analysis video about who might have blown up the pipeline on YouTube the other day, but I can’t seem to find it now…and I think YouTube might have removed it. I believe it was posted by the Caspian Report channel, whom I find to be a pretty good source of thoughtful and neutral analysis on international stories.

Edited to add:

I found the video. It’s from the Not "What You Think" YouTube channel:

President Biden is considering sending a few thousand troops to Eastern Europe and the Baltic States as part of a broader NATO effort to bolster NATO allies that border Russia and Ukraine, given recent tensions, Fox News confirms.

…except that there is NO broader NATO effort to help Ukraine directly. In fact, the U.S., Great Britain, and Estonia are the only NATO countries so far that have been lending aid to Ukraine, and Germany is in fact actively blocking any efforts to aid Ukraine…right down to trying an dictate to Estonia what they can do with some howitzers that Estonia bought from some other country, which had in turn bought them from Germany. Germany thinks it can dictate what others can do with stuff Germany hasn’t even owned in decades.

And by the way, this would be the same quisling Germany that hasn’t ever spent the 2% of GDP on national defense, which is the minimum amount required of member nations by the NATO charter. Why should they? They’ve got tens of thousands of American troops covering their worthless butts.

Germany's new chancellor is disgusting, and they are an untrustworthy ally at this point. They see Putin as the strong horse, and they’re backing his play. (In their defense, Germany probably sees the US as a gutless and untrustworthy ally with Bei Den Jo at the helm.) For my money, we should bring our people home, and let Germany defend herself for a while. Maybe when they’re faced with the reality of it, they’ll sing a different tune. It's my opinion that if Russia conquers Ukraine, then Romania, Hungary, Czechia, and Poland will be next on the block…since Russia already dominates Belarus and Moldova. Putin's not done by a long shot, and the major players in NATO are cowards who have deliberately taken the easy route and made themselves Putin’s energy slaves. It’s interesting to me that those NATO countries that were once either part of the USSR, or were under the USSR's control, are the countries that now seem to most value liberty, and are most willing to defend the liberty of others.

The only silver lining in this poo sandwich is that, by concentrating his tank brigades along Ukraine’s border, Putin has made Russia somewhat weaker in other areas, and this is something that might be exploitable if a hot war breaks out. S2 Underground is a very useful YouTube channel for intelligence analysis in the region.