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To add on to that Comrade Trump is proposing major tariffs which would likely send the US spiraling into recession. 60% on anything from China, 100% on foreign cars and 10% on all other imports as an example. If this wannabe dictator takes power again in the US the implications not just for Americans but for pretty much everyone who believes in and wants to live in free, open and democratic societies are very bad and potentially catastrophic.

Twitter has become really awful last few weeks. Pro Russian accounts seem to be convinced of imminent UAF surrender and collapse. US needs to get the finger out of the Western World turns there backs on them.

russia are the best in the world at asymmetric warfafe, unfortunately.

It's the dramatic thing to say and it is a great distraction from why Europ. Especially Western Europe is near unable to defend itself and largely unwilling to change that.

It is also a distraction from the fact that Ukraine is deliberately short changed by the entire West so as to help bring the war to a conclusion/stalemate.

It's a horrendous mistake by Biden and most of Europe, sometimes de-escalation and an end to a conflict are the wrong thing to do.

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Celeste Wallander is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, and while briefing Congress this week, said that the US does not support Ukraine attacking Russian oil facilities because they are civilian targets. From 2017–2022, she was the CEO of the US-Russia Foundation, a non-profit with offices in Washington and Moscow that works closely with the private sector in Russia and has encouraged Western investment in the terrorist state. She is corrupted by Russian influence, and the idea that she could be placed in such a high position in the administration is cause for worry.

Jake Sullivan, whose resignation (firing) I have called for before, is corrupted by his close relationship with Samuel Charap, a member of the Valdai Club, the Moscow-funded “think tank” that advances Russian interests among intellectuals and scholars abroad through bribery (err… funding). Putin, Lavrov, and other Russian terrorist leaders regularly attend Valdai conferences. Charap was a Fulbright scholar at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, a school with close ties to Russian intelligence, where students are recruited into the FSB (if they are Russian) or as pro-Russian influencers (if they are foreign). Charap continues to regularly visit the White House, even after publishing such articles as “The US should surrender to Russia now” and “Russia is too powerful to oppose.” I’m just kidding. He’s not so obvious. He did pen an article in Foreign Policy titled “The West’s Weapons Won’t Make Any Difference to Ukraine.”

I am not saying it's right that we in the west and the US just ignore what Russia and Putin are doing in Ukraine. I have posted many times on this thread in support of sending as much military assistance as possible, I have actually been critical that enough has not been done in this regard.

But I think talk of escalation into NATO countries or suggestion of WW3 is far fetched. I just don't see it happening.

However I agree with your assessment on Georgia and Kazakhstan being at risk in the future.

With what is happening with Iran and Israel at the moment I wonder what will happen regarding Ukraine in the sense of will the attention of the world be cast more to the middle east will the US give more arms to Israel that might have eventually been given to Ukraine, will Iran hold off giving Russia any more arnaments/drones now since they might need them all themselves.

I doubt Europe will be supplying Israel and the US hasn't really supplied Ukraine with much in the past 4/5 months.

It's not like Israel will be lobbing artillery shells at Iran. The only thing both Ukraine and Israel would need in common would be anti air. But the US/UK and no apparently Jordan shoot down missiles and drones heading to Israel, but Cruise missiles flying into Poland are left untouched. Crazy ****!

It is certainly complicated. Will putins Republican Party continue to sit on their hands ?

china doesnt have the capacity to invade whatsoever but if they were crazy enough they might fire missiles. if they do that its game over for trade with china and a blockade on them.

A slightly strange post.

Could you explain why you think that the US was "on the wrong side of history" with regards to the Korean war? A war started by the invasion of the South by the North.

Or is it, as I suspect, that you come to history & politics with a "The USA is bad, therefore…" approach?