Good read. This all started in 1973 after the Yom Kippur War when Kissinger pried Egypt out of the fingers of the Kremlin followed by the Berlin Wall, the failure of the USSR, and in rapid successiuon -- Syria, Venezuela, Iran, and, soon, Cuba.
Putin has taken some bold risks that his army cannot back up.
The best world result is a defanged Russia, a broke Russia, and a dismembered Russia -- meaning subdivided into 5 European sized states.
The biggest thing preventing an attempt on North Korea is their nukes. Proliferation is going to skyrocket after this. The world's leaders can plainly see that's the only thing preventing them from getting attacked.
On the grand scheme of things losing Khamenei hurts Putin.
But in the short to medium term, does it?
The U.S. is expending a lot of hardware. We had already stopped directly supplying Ukraine, but doesn’t this impact the supply from European partners because they won’t be able to backfill Patriot missiles and other US supplied weaponry?
Also, the U.S. is concentrating its satellites over Iran which seems like it would impact the information we are collecting over Ukraine.
Good read. This all started in 1973 after the Yom Kippur War when Kissinger pried Egypt out of the fingers of the Kremlin followed by the Berlin Wall, the failure of the USSR, and in rapid successiuon -- Syria, Venezuela, Iran, and, soon, Cuba.
Putin has taken some bold risks that his army cannot back up.
The best world result is a defanged Russia, a broke Russia, and a dismembered Russia -- meaning subdivided into 5 European sized states.
There have been minimal manpower losses. But enormous armament depletion for the U.S. if this continues at the same rate.
Huge costs to our polity in terms of incurred debt and wasted opportunity.
Paul Krugman has a great commentary today about that.
At worst, we are recycling our own money by buying American gear. Peace in the Middle East would be worth it. Defanging Russia would be worth it.
The biggest thing preventing an attempt on North Korea is their nukes. Proliferation is going to skyrocket after this. The world's leaders can plainly see that's the only thing preventing them from getting attacked.
Yes and no. North Korea is a barbaric 1500s country under a feudal war lord and China. It is a shit state.
good article and very satisfying to read. just one thing. Tony asked me to mention, it’s “fuggedaboutit”
On the grand scheme of things losing Khamenei hurts Putin.
But in the short to medium term, does it?
The U.S. is expending a lot of hardware. We had already stopped directly supplying Ukraine, but doesn’t this impact the supply from European partners because they won’t be able to backfill Patriot missiles and other US supplied weaponry?
Also, the U.S. is concentrating its satellites over Iran which seems like it would impact the information we are collecting over Ukraine.
the noose is tightning on putin
Oh, well, instead of the Sopranos I would have quoted the Vercotti brothers, but there's not much difference...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0_r4PDyCs