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there will be peace negotiations on the border between Ukraine and Bellorussia
at least, that is what is agreed
at least, that is what is agreed
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there will be peace negotiations on the border between Ukraine and Bellorussia
at least, that is what is agreed
In case if Putin decides to push the button, I'm sure the West could nuke Russia out of existence while suffering minimal casualties.
The West has technology which allows to intercept enemy nuclear missiles on the ground or in the air, before they hit their targets.
Poland has this anti-missile shield too.
So these are Ukrainian-Belarusian peace talks, NOT Ukrainian-Russian.
In such case, I support. Maybe Belarusians finally realized their mistake.
They can intercept a certain percentage, but what would go through would be enough destruction by any means.In case if Putin decides to push the button, I'm sure the West could nuke Russia out of existence while suffering minimal casualties.
The West has technology which allows to intercept enemy nuclear missiles on the ground or in the air, before they hit their targets.
Poland has this anti-missile shield too.
It seems that the insane murderer Putin, after filling Ukraine with Russian scrap metal, forcing innocent Russians to go to death to kill other innocent people, has now also alerted the Russian nuclear forces! The total disaster of humanity is at the mercy of this lunatic, at any moment! Is there still room for discussions and sanctions like the ones so far ?! I hope that the world powers will find a radical solution as soon as possible, we will get rid of this madman. Even those next to him from the Kremlin and from his own reasoning army, his own citizens, could be the ones to put him in his straitjacket immediately and place him in a specialized sanatorium!
They can intercept a certain percentage, but what would go through would be enough destruction by any means.
Poland in particular won't be saved by the "shield" they got from NATO.
This is no game and no regular, limited war. Putin set everything on one card, he is determined and a very bad loser, that's part of his personality.
In a worst case scenario, you might hope for his military to not follow his orders if he wants to press the button, but that hope is a bad option.
They need to negotiate!
They can intercept a certain percentage, but what would go through would be enough destruction by any means.
Poland in particular won't be saved by the "shield" they got from NATO.
This is no game and no regular, limited war. Putin set everything on one card, he is determined and a very bad loser, that's part of his personality.
In a worst case scenario, you might hope for his military to not follow his orders if he wants to press the button, but that hope is a bad option.
They need to negotiate!
I remember when the Sovjet Union went bankrupt.
Luckily Ronald Reagan had succeeded the whimp Carter as president of the U.S.
We need cowboys to handle this, not softies.
You can't make them feel for a moment they can get away with this.
Are you sure that Trump said that?
@Palermo -- Although I have not made anywhere near the number or quality of contributions that you make to this forum (in fact when you first appeared here, I complimented you on the high quality of your contributions), I've frequented this site for about 4, maybe 5 years now. That's quite a bit of time to invest pretending to be half Calabrian, albeit most of my "time" has been silent reading of threads.
I consider myself a patriot & a nationalist, which also means anti-globalist & anti-imperialist. My practical politics lean toward populism, but as a theoretical matter I recognize the importance of a benevolent & far-sighted elite. I voted for Obama in 2008, Trump in 2016, and abstained from voting in all other presidential elections. In terms of international politics, I am a great believer in balance-of-power realism. This is why I despair of our policy with regard to Russia, even if the nationalist in me is sympathetic to Ukrainian aspirations for self-determination and sovereignty.
Didn't Zelenskyy just rejected the offer of peace talks in Belorussian border city since Belorussia is not neutral?
Malaparte: Well I appreciate your statements regarding my contribution, I must confess I don't remember. On your 2nd statement, in the context of your post, I do see where you are coming from. I agree with you about the "elites" in the USA, I have several posts on that front above. I am more of a Reaganite, but I do believe in nationalism that is just that, wanting to secure and take care of its own economy, border, etc and get away from this global supply chain brought about by all this Free Trade deals with countries that are rogue states thinking these trade deals would make those countries adopt USA and European models on free elections, freedom of the press, etc, etc, (i.e. China, who ain't gonna do it). So Nationalism in form yes, but not to the exclusion of alliances and partnerships and thus not a nationalistic policy that seeks to expand and hurt the countries that it borders (that I would hope goes without saying). NATO is a good alliance, but as I have said numerous times in this thread, it needs to be updated (greater contribution by all NATO partners) and NATO policy can't be in contradiction to your economic policy, which has been the case in Europe for the last 25-30 years.
I am not here to hammer German politicians as I have already expressed my total disdain towards Merkel, but it seems like Germany because of its Oil and Gas integration with Putin and Russia were almost drifting away from NATO and heading to becoming a neutral EU country. I think this invasion seems to have changed their way of thinking. Again, that is just an assessment from this side of the Atlantic by a layman geo-political analyst:sun:.
But I am watching various news sources and last Night Kim and North Korea fired an unidentified object (I assume it was a missile launch to test his delivery systems). China yesterday conducted war game exercises (Taiwan). The USA has 55K troops stationed in Japan, that is more than what was in Germany before this Ukraine invasion (35K) and another 28k in South Korea. So prior to Russian expansion into Ukraine, there were more USA personnel in Japan and Korea than the combined number in NATO countries. I think that was strategic decision and the USA has been increasing slowly the number of personnel in Australia, although I can't find a hard number (there are 2 bases in Australia).
But given China to me is the greater geopolitical threat (Russia is one as well), that is why NATO allies in Europe, especially the ones with huge economies need to put in their recommended 2% of GDP to help support NATO. The USA needs to have a presence in NATO but it(we) can't be the only one as the USA needs to also address China in the Pacific and work with our allies there (Australia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand) to contain China. I would hope our European friends here, who are not anti USA and support NATO would see that the USA has to be involved in two spheres or theatres of containment and deal with 2 Rogue states, China and Russia, thus the need for our European NATO partners to spend more on NATO defense and decouple themselves from Russian Oil and Gas.
He called him a genius, savvy, wonderful and smart. I can provide references for all those if you want. Do you know why he called him a genius? Because he used the pretext of protecting Ethnic Russians to invade Ukraine. He praised Putin for invading Crimea:
"So he has the Olympics," Trump said that May. "The day after the Olympics, he starts with Ukraine. The day after. How smart? You know, he didn’t want to do it during the Olympics. Boom. The day after. So our athletes leave, we all leave, and the day after. And you know, when he goes in and takes Crimea, he’s taking the heart and soul because that’s where all the money is."
If you think you know Putin's personality, what would you tell him?
On 19 February 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union issued a decree transferring the Crimean Oblast from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian SSR.
Didn't Zelenskyy just reject the offer of peace talks in Belorussian border city since Belarus is not neutral?
yes, but now it is not in Belarus, it is on the border
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