yea,Russians can't build shit. the T-34 was no good at all against the German tanks of 41-43. AK is a POS that only been in use for pushing 80 years,Makarov misfired 1/2 the time,mig 15 never matched the f 86. bull shit. we and the Germans had better trained tank crew,grunts and pilots. that was the winning factor. the Germans were hugely successful at 1st but got so over extended that they had no chance to win,prob after Smolensk '41. we did feed the Russians enough to win like FDR wanted.
i keep harping on your blather. but WHY should we be involved at all in Ukraine,Caucasus or eastern Europe. you always carry on like a neocon that thinks we can,should or could control everything everywhere. protect our shinning allies and throw as many bodies into the mix as needed. seems like you believe that our MIC deserves whatever sacrifice needed to keep them fat and happy. you present a lot of facts mixed in with a lot of questionable conclusions. looks like you think pissing away trillions on foreign adventures is more important than rebuilding infrastructure here; places like Maui,NoCarolina,LA,FL. i mean,after all,keeping Z and his crew rich and powerful is what really matters.
hate to think it but it starts to look like Trump is out of his depth re foreign policy. does he want to continue to goad Russia or does he want to normalize relations? either way this mineral deal is a delusional pipe dream. he might be on to something with the tariffs. if we have China by the balls,we'll see if they keep creeping farther into the Pacific. that might be a big deal.
Russia has deteriorated significantly in its military industrial capacity. They always cranked out low airframe life trash, but now their fighter-manufacturing has been consolidated into a tiny building in Eastern Russia much closer to Japan than it is to Moscow. They are a shell of their former selves when it comes to MIC.
The US and almost every other nation doesn’t want Russia at the doorstep of Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary again. It has nothing to do with political ideology and everything to do with containment of a bad actor who disrupted regional stability.
Russia showed the world though that it can’t even take ground like it did when it was equipped with US Lend-Lease in WWII, so nobody is going to take them as seriously anymore. 3 years and how much did the map change vs the cemeteries?
Trump tried to massage an offramp for Putin, which he didn’t take. Trump framed the peace talks in a way as if Putin could claim victory and then cease fire, but instead of doing that, Putin thought he could flex and continue fighting. So now he ticked off Trump, who will now likely start to give Ukraine game-changing weapons, not the outdated obsolete stuff we were going to de-mil.
The mantra about this being a US MIC-funded and focused campaign is retarded, as I’ve said repeatedly. All the major US and even European contractors are way back-ordered to entirely different countries who pay top dollar. Ukraine is not one of them.
There are no trillions being sent to Ukraine. I agree in US first, and those are entirely different line-items in the National budget.
The mineral deal is the best proposal anyone has put forth in this whole mess, as it places a major political barrier on Putin and Russia from violating a peace deal.
