I hope you're right. Except on the Putin acting less rationally. That would be bad.
If they have access to trade through China, given what they have already protected from the world system to avoid sanctions, Russia can probably...
We waited too long on Ukraine. Sending troops there is logistically impractical. Projecting force that far from the US takes time and planning....
IDK. There is weakness in NATO right now. I'm not 100% sold on the US or several other countries living up to their commitment if Putin decides to...
Unfortunately the best support for peace sometimes is preparing for war. The us needs to probably allocate more funding to the military. I know...
I disagree with this concept. Those "rebel controlled" territories are UKRAINE. Russia just illegally recognized them as independent and sent...
So … where are all the “no way russia invades” people now?
bush was the devil when bush was in office. Ic was the scapegoat. Not that it has anything to do with this really at all.
wth they work in a job where even if they do manage to get it mostly right there are hundreds of other people between most analysts and the final...
Are you going to offer up how you would have handled it? I mean I’m not saying you are for sure wrong about Biden’s motives but you are definitely...
You’re missing a big part of this, and that’s how Putin is perceived at home and what he has already sacrificed just being where he is now. I...
I guess you could sanction him now and say you’ll lift them after they withdraw but you may have trouble convincing the Allies to go in on...
If you sanction him now he has no reason to not invade.
Sanctions now would guarantee invasion imo. It’s a shit situation for zelensky but we have learned the hard way that you have to keep the...
Interesting side note - the more Biden blusters the more politically appealing it may be to Putin not to invade just to prove him wrong and ride...
There are a lot of people in this thread carrying russias water. I have not been impressed by Biden as president but the strategy they are using...
5 cops dead. 140 injured. Sounds like a battle to me.
that's great. Vaccine lowers the number of serious delta variant cases by a factor of about 4 based upon what I’ve read compared to the height of...
Even in alachua county positive cases doubled last week and double again this week. This kind of growth is troubling and school starts in two weeks…
nah us is good for a while simply because no one can project power far from home like we can. It’s unique to our military right now. That can...
