Your hope is my hope. Fast surgical demilitarization then exit. And I also fear now that may not be in the cards, similar to how I was wrong last time.
My prediction was for fast surgical decapitation of forces shelling Donbass. That did not happen, probably because it was not possible, probably because those forces were backed elsewhere. I also know now that DPR and LPR control was pretty much limited to the cities. 60-150k Ukranian regular and Neonazi troops were in the surrounding "administrative" area. Surgical strikes on missile launchers could not eliminate those.
Endless US predictions of "Invasion" were only part of the provocation. Another part was the vastly increasing shelling of Donbass. Final straw may have been Zelensky's threat of going nuclear.
We have not seen proof, as Biden claimed, that Putin planned this categorically or that there was any such intelligence. All the US had to do was withdraw and leave the neonazis to initiate the war. Perhaps Americans should be chained to Kyiv to prevent these things.
This will likely be lost on most Americans, as we plunge into another 80 years of cold and hot war.
An outcome which has led at least one blogger I've seen to conjecture Putin as CIA troll.
I'm peeling off the word "Saint" on my Putin shrine.
Many pro-Russians are speaking in hubristic millenial terms...the end of NATO, US global dominance, etc. That is, of course, worrisome, though I was and still am calling for an end to NATO.
Those more objective see China as the big winner, US, NATO, Europe and Russia all as losers, and Ukraine of course as the biggest loser of all.
Parallels in US invasion of Iraq ("weapons of mass destruction") and arming Mujahadeen in Afghanistan (giving the Vietnam experience to Soviet Russia).
My calculation is still that the US is deeply enmeshed in the lowest level of hell, Treachery. Russia is still in Limbo, but the angel has disappeared.
Ninth Circle: Treachery
The final circle is a frozen wasteland occupied by history’s greatest traitors. So … Washington, DC in February?
The final circle is a frozen wasteland occupied by history’s greatest traitors. So … Washington, DC in February?
Liberal imperialists are going wild about Trump. See what a traitor, they say.
The Deep State only allows the insane to have more sanity about war.
And when those insane better represent the preferred domestic tendencies of the Deep State, they'll even get promoted.
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