Peter Brown wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 11:27 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 11:07 am
Anyone know if this is confirmed yet?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/15 ... -latest-vn
Interesting conversation with my son just now who had gotten off a call with a number of his direct reports in Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, etc.
Russian colleagues are "distraught" over what is happening, worried about killing, worried about sanctions. He had a separate conversation afterwards with the young man from Georgia, who talked about the deep ties between the Georgians and the Ukrainians. Very quiet on the streets in Georgia right now, though there were protests...they're holding their breaths that this won't spread to Georgia, but expect it may eventually. That area is very opposed to Putin, don't want another 2008.
Separately, there are reports of Poles, Georgians, others crossing over to fight in Ukraine with the Ukrainians.
I don’t know if this is true per se, but the more I think about it, the more I think Putin is buying his own grave here. Ukrainians can fight forever, not too unlike what the Afghanis did to Russia back when.
And if the West was smart, they’d funnel guns and other ammo over various border and over a decade or so, surreptitiously of course, but enough to make this invasion really painful. If I was a young american again, I’d love to go over and give it a crack, and I’m not even a Ukrainian. I never exercised my war needs…which are still evident today, which is why many on Fanlax dislike me.
Yes death is a possibility, but life is death ultimately and I’d rather die living than die dying, iykwim.
I also think more Russians are dying than what is being shown. He’s got little support at home. No one even understands his reasoning, he’s made himself now a war criminal.
Germany must get nuclear power going again. This war might indirectly help put to bed the woke lunacy of the global left.
That's not why folks don't "like" you,
but I do think that this could very well end in Putin's demise, though that's most likely well off in time.
Yes, extended resistance, supported with necessary weaponry...we don't need to be quiet about that, there'll be a gov't in exile.
Ratcheting up of economic stranglehold, progressive reduction in oil and gas purchased as alternative energy sources come on line, whether from ME, US, green or nuclear. That'll take time, but think in months and years, not days and weeks.
No electronics.
Very targeted on oligarchs and their families. Gotta be thorough on this. All of them, in every corner. I don't buy the argument that Putin can't be sanctioned personally as well. Seize ALL the assets.
I dunno whether the Germans will ever go nuclear. Technology has improved a lot, but still not good enough...but this may be a worthwhile tradeoff given stakes. Can always take them down....but this is definitely not happening overnight, even if the decision was clear.