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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NATO allies get to offload old Soviet derived derived weapons and munitions to be replaced with modern NATO weaponry that is substantially superior to 90% of what Russia can deploy when operational. Putin is really bad at this. He is still capable of causing great damage to civilian and military infrastructure and destabilizing democratically elected governments in the West.

If Kyiv had fallen as Putin believed would happen then Russia would be in an entirely different position in terms of the power dynamic in Eastern Europe. His goal was to fracture NATO and exploit differences between the US and it’s German and French counterparts. Ukraine would have been returned to its states as a de facto SSR much like Belarus — but with a thriving industrial and agricultural economy — and NATO having to reallocate resources to an expansive border with Poland and Romania, not to mention a more capable Russian warm water navy operating out of Odesa to supplement its Crimean-based naval operations from Sevastopol m. This too would have given greater leverage to the likes of Erdogan and Orban.

His mistake was misjudging Biden and Zelenskyy as weak leaders. He was not prepared to wage an extended war of attrition under the weight of severe sanctions. He never understood his own logistical limitations and that he might need to mobilize and supply large numbers of middle aged men. And yet Putin still remains a threat because he is content to fight a land war as if he is Stalin in the 1940s, but without the industrial might of America supporting him. The Ladas being manufactured for sale in Russia without airbags and antilock brake technology is the perfect metaphor. He no longer has a civil aviation industry. And it’s increasingly difficult for him to keep producing oil to sell to India and China. He has set Russia back economically by at least a decade and its harder for the oligarchs who have supported him to profit from corruption.

Anyone who thinks Putin respects international law and is interested in a long-term diplomatic solution is sadly naive and hasn’t been paying attention. While he may not pose a direct threat to other nations at this very moment he seeks to militarize the Arctic/Bering Sea and provoke confrontation whenever possible.  
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No one respects international law unless they have to.[/quote]

Yep. We’re still very far from having an elected global leader and building a Dyson sphere for free energy so we can migrate to other terraformed/habitable planets. Still squabbling about bits of land. It’s pathetic.[/quote]

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