Ukrainian War Developments

Maikeru said:

Erm, you think it is white people doing attacks on Asians in the USA?

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sequ said:

Russian missile targets Kharkov city center

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1498548003640164352

Russia can't into tactical PGM strikes

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Richard Santos said:

A major reason why the Russians have not been more aggressive in the propaganda MAY be they were not prepared. They may have prepared the military operation for use to show they were serious. But they didn’t think they would actually need to invade because they didn’t expect the US would refuse to compromise at all. Hence they didn’t go all the way to page 26 of the checklist.

From the Russia perspective it must seem very unlikely that the US would take such a hard line, because the US didn’t have a means to stop the Russian invasion if the Russian really went in, and from the perspective of the Russians, it must have seemed then US could have gotten a better deal strategically by compromising with the Russians. For example the US promise never to include Ukraine and Belarus in NATO in return for Russian promise never to invade or deploy weapons of any kind into Ukraine and Belarus.

But if the Russians had to invade and both sides dropped all pretenses of live and let live, Russia will probably take Ukraine, and thus be able to deploy her nuclear arsenal 650km farther forward closer to the EU, while the US still would not be able to put any intermediate or medium range weapons closer to Russia.

So from Putin’s perspective the hardline that the US took made no sense whatsoever And is self defeating. So I suspect he never really thought he would need to invade Ukraine.

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Maikeru said:

Erm, you think it is white people doing attacks on Asians in the USA?

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