old salt wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 1:29 am
you're a moron. They're doing both.
Good. I hope they're as bad at military strategy as you are, and are just as pompous. Head right out in the open to unfortified positions where the US military has been working on the strategy to counter that for months now. Putin is fighting US on the ground military minds that have 20+ years of real combat experience. Best of luck if he's dumb enough to do that.
I'm the one who told you that you need money to wage war...money that Putin doesn't have, and you mocked me for over a decade.
Now it comes to where the rubber meets the road, and Putin runs out of all the sh*t you need to wage war in a matter of weeks, if not days, stalling his 1980's invasion plan, thinking he's still the Soviet Union. And rather than say "well, you called it.....you were right, Putin doesn't have what he needs to defeat even a minor league team, let alone challenge NATO", you call me a moron.
And how's that sub base that you thought was so awesome workin' out for Putin, Old Salt? He gonna shoot torpedoes at the Ukrainian troops?
old salt wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 11:58 pm
I'm still trying to figure out what the Biden Admin is doing, as is the defense media. They're asking the same questions I'm asking.
When the POTUS had a little R by his name, you called it "strategic ambiguity".....now that the D shows up? This is no longer a good thing, and you're throwing stones because you think that Biden should give Putin our full plans in Ukraine.
Why the F would anyone tell Putin when the tanks are arriving? How stupid have we become that that sounds like a good idea, OS?
NATO is now pot committed. So if Putin ups the ante with weapons from elsewhere? What do you think Biden will do? No one will accept Putin taking Kiev....so that's out.
old salt wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 11:58 pm
This from the foreign policy genius who told us Putin was inconsequential because his GDP was smaller than Italy's.
For someone so insignificant, he's sure turned the world upside down.
What I told you---and you can't get through your head because your giant ego can't stand that you've been dead wrong about Putin for over a decade-----is: "Why doesn't the US invade Canada?" You're seeing why, but are too freaking stubborn to pay attention to what anyone says but yourself.
Yep, it's causing all sorts of trade problems. Which is why the US doesn't invade Canada.
Mexico? If they wanted? Could invade America if they thought the same way that you and Putin do.
And what would happen? The same thing that's happening to Putin.......they'd lose the war, but yep, to your point.,.......there would be a BUNCH of short term global economic damage to all parties because trade between Mexico and the US would cease, and Global Corporations with plants in Mexico would pull up stakes and find new trading partners. But both short and long term, now the Mexico has burned their trading bridges? They'd be F'ed.
Just like Putin. But sure, keep pretending like I didn't tell you what was coming for Putin years ago...and here we are, watching what I told you would happen in real time. You were wrong. I was right. And if Putin doesn't fix this soon? The EU and multinational corporations will pivot away from trade with Russia fully.....and then it's two generations of Russians that are F'ed, instead of just one.
I listen to you, and have learned a ton. You'd think I'd earned a bit of respect when you saw Putin's army stalled out, out of ammo and with a sh(t logistics system because they don't have the money that the US does to do this stuff. Tip of the hat, at least.