Lol Tucksucker here is also a Ben Shapiro acolyte as well. Sad!
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Lol Tucksucker here is also a Ben Shapiro acolyte as well. Sad!
Not if it satisfied my need to see Biden's face smushed in the ca-ca.
No nuclear war yet and Putin looks weak in front of the whole world. I’d say Joe is doing just fine.
Achievable If.
Lada manufacturer. This may be a good thing.
The local Youth Army (Yunarmiya) unit in Severomorsk lines up in a “Z.” Photo: Yunarmiya Murmansk
...you have nary other choice, n.
Is the West Just Going to Let Putin Level Ukraine?
Putin’s Back is Against the Wall — But He’s More Dangerous Now Than Ever
This pattern.
And it holds a grim portent for the future, because if you understand the pattern, it goes like this.
The Ukrainians resist.
They grind the Russian military to a halt and wear it down to shreds.
In response, Putin, desperate, escalates even further.
And that means that Putin is going to escalate again. Because that is what he’s done every time.
So where does Putin escalate from here?
There are really only a few options left.
One is that Putin s s more cities even harder, and turn them into Mariupols, Aleppos, Groznys
— and simply stops caring about his own losses, just seeing them as cannon fodder. That’s the least bad one.
The next is that, to clear centers of major resistance, like Kyiv, he resorts to chemical and biological weapons.
And the final one is that to send a message that nobody can ignore, he drops a nuke on a city.
Those are the only escalations left.
For the Ukrainians, the spectre of the Holocaust is an everyday reality.
As I discussed yesterday, Russia’s current account is still flush with cash,
which is vivid and undeniable proof that our
sanctions based approach is not working.
Russia is losing this war thanks to the incredible bravery and stolid resistance of the Ukrainians — 100% — not because we have hurt it yet.
And so we are going to have to do more.
“don’t provoke Putin to escalate!” That is the opposite of what it really says.
What the pattern of escalation that Putin is resorting to really says is that he is going to escalate, regardless.
If we want him to lose, he is just…going to escalate.
That is what he is, who he is, his strategy, his set of choices.
But if we know that he is going to escalate harder the more he loses, then we have nothing to lose, either.
We aren’t “provoking” him — it’s just what he’s going to do. The price of winning this war is going to be escalation from a desperate Putin.
And the only way that we limit that escalation is to win it on our terms, as fast as we can.
We know that he’s going to escalate.
We can’t win this war in any other way. This is who he is.
And so we are going to have to accept that, and realise that there is no realistic way out of that escalation, and it’s the price of victory.
https://eand.co/is-the-west-just-goi...e-8310c0d2e069
That's some interesting gamesmanship. Worth considering
He will not give an order to retreat, to withdraw
Pootin will escalate to nuking a city, without NATO intervention, because he's losing badly.
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