Can we offer this Ukranian solider a scholarship?
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One day we will be asked HOW Ukraine is supposed to fight Russia and recover lost territory, like we know the best military strategy. It's not unlike the question about HOW we're going to become less reliant on fossil fuels over the next few decades. It's a deflection. The truth of the situations and the need for a solution need to be accepted before any further discussion. If not, there will never be a solution. And any discussion we do have in here is all bullshit anyway because none of us know the definitive answers. The nuance of this is lost in here. Denial of problems and and an inability to see past their noses, let alone years into the future, is commonplace. Maintenance fees are required to help prevent even the POSSIBILITY of something happening down the road. This is what security is. So you don't pay a larger price later. The analogies are endless.
Even that question is less of a deflection than asking why nightclubs are open, however.
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I think what has been missing all along is the defining what winning actually looks like, is that achievable, what does that cost and how long does that take.
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Sounds racist
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Never thought business 101, where someone asks you for an investment and in turn you ask for business plan was racist. But here we are.
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Appreciate the sensible question. That's what keeping an open mind is, and it's civil. I agree that there needs to be at least a bit more of a plan, globally, not just America. We're either in or we're not. This waffling won't do. What you ask is an incredibly complex question, and I guarantee the best military minds in the world don't know the answer, but we have to work at increasing the odds of success, however it's defined. We have to be committed.
I like the idea of a committed NATO 5-year fund that Stoltenberg has been proposing. It's been getting mixed reception but the overall idea is sensible, I think. 100 billion commitment annually for five years (that was his proposal), obligated commitment from every NATO member and it would also reduce America's overall commitment. Win win over here. You have to know what you're working with before a military strategy can even be formed. Right now Ukraine has had to ration and re-strategize over and over again because they never know what assistance they're going to receive. It's not sustainable to play whack-a-mole with assistance. There needs to be an annual commitment that you can budget around.
That's about all I have on this question rn. I'm Tug tired.
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Btw this was a great read in Foreign Affairs. Really shows the complexity of what we're dealing with here. The future of Russia has many possible paths, most of them damaging unless they have a cultural and political Renaissance and become France. I personally wouldn't take that bet.
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Who could have predicted this?
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Everyone with a triple digit IQ except for leftards.
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Little old JP Morgan
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Biden will bail them out just like Dubya did with TARP if they lose an unmanageable amount of money.
They’re huge donors to the UniParty, just like Zelensky and the others laundering taxpayer money through Ukraine.
