I had to double check which thread I'm looking at. You're deranged to be posting this here. |
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The sanctions were a huge mistake. It’s accelerated the dollar losing reserve status as all other countries don’t want the USA to do it to them and are joining together. Trump understands the big picture much better than the swamp. Our leaders are stupid. |
| Turns out oil and grain are more valuable than the dollar. Who knew? It’s refreshingly old fashioned. |
Holy moly. And everything you wrote is true! The cognitive dissonance is too much, time to personally attack you. You lying a-h0le. |
Plus the misguided Cold War era sanctions drove a tighter bond between Russia, China and India and S America plus egregiously punished USA multinationals who operated and sold to Russia. Now they’re out 10% of their revenue and sold their assets there at a loss or write off. Worst is “disallowing” countries to buy Russia oil or nat gas and no plan for where to buy it since everywhere at capacity, thus price is up and up and up. Well done Biden. Should have given the Poles the old f-16 and bombed the Russian convoys when they were entering Ukraine, in February. Done and done. Air Force advised that, but Biden appointees and Biden said No. and here we are, grinding away money and lives, letting PUtin do whatever he wants. |
I said it early on in this war but the problem here partially is the US and western Europe thinking they are what they were 40 years ago. The world has changed. They don’t have nearly the power they once did. They’re nearly all states in decline. |
It seems to me that Russia is in decline based on their shitty war efforts. |
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Russia. they will drag on and the world wont have appetite to carry on.
russia has over a million troops, they are playing games in ukrain, they could destroy it if they wanted to. they are essentially destabilizing the region. that is their goal so they are winning |
Especially after divisive Obama who neutered the sect of state role, never investigated Iran nukes, let N Korea advance, Russia invade Crimea, did an executive order to attack Libya to help EU oil situation- which failed, let China steal iP and advance, Benghazi debacle & coverup, and took 9 months and a huge confrontation to finall approve the Biden attack before it would never work. Worst foreign policy president in centuries. And so is Biden. |
+1 this is obvious to everyone for several months now. PUtin knows Biden will do very little that makes an impact. Biden can take some refugees and pay to rebuild west Ukraine or something. He’s a pushover and so is his cabinet. |
Ha! Meant to say Bin Laden attack. Usama Obama, Binladen Biden.. |
Putin has been very open about his goals, and early on. You may disagree with them but they are well known. He does not want NATO to expand eastward. He will not tolerate NATO presence/membership/flirtation specifically in Ukraine and Georgia. These were all known facts. The entire problem can be condensed into this sentence: the West does not think Russia ought to have a sphere of influence, and Putin disagrees. That's it. Quite interestingly, he does not feel the same about the Baltic republics. And this checks out because during the entire time of the USSR they were never really the part of the same space, not culturally. Their otherness was a given so their departure was expected and accepted. |
Says a former neocon
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They've said Lithuania is not a country. It's also quite clear that their issue with Ukraine is not NATO but the mere fact of their existence. |