What I would like is if you talk about Russia and Ukraine do some research. Russia is dying out there. They cannot manage without the support of North Korea for soldiers, Iran and Venezuela for weapons, and Trump to get rid of sanctions. Those getting rid of sanctions is like the US sending weapons to Russia to use on Ukraine, because th…
What I would like is if you talk about Russia and Ukraine do some research. Russia is dying out there. They cannot manage without the support of North Korea for soldiers, Iran and Venezuela for weapons, and Trump to get rid of sanctions. Those getting rid of sanctions is like the US sending weapons to Russia to use on Ukraine, because that is going to be us helping to pay for them. Ukraine needs support, but with it, they are well positioned to negotiate a peace.
Sharing it with my Gen Z family members to see what they think.
Thank you for making that point. It's a crucial but neglected part of the story.
The combined GDP of the US and the EU is 22 times that of Russia.
Between them, the US, the EU, and Ukraine have more than three times as many active-duty soldiers as Russia. More than a quarter of the activity-duty soldiers in the US, the EU, and Ukraine are Ukrainians, who ask for no boots on the ground from other countries. They ask for military equipment and ammunition as they continue to defend their borders and, in the process, the eastern edge of democratic Europe.
Drones, relatively inexpensive, play an increasing role in how the war is being fought. Advantage: Ukraine
Russia is weak. A coalition of the willing can send the Russian army home. The US has withdrawn from the coalition and thereby diminished it, as the US negotiates with Russia about how to divide Europe between them, either forgetting the lessons of the Sudetenland crisis and the Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact or remembering them and saying to themselves "Let's give it another try."
And Russia has a corrupt military and governmental structure that weakens everything they try to do. Kleptocracies and not deigned to run a country well. That is what the USA is by the way under Trump and Musk. So, as Trump tanks the economy with his tariffs, which I believe are raising such hostility to the US the likes of which have not been seen before, that there will be less GDP, and less collected taxes to pay the military who may go looking for people who will pay them. In any case, Trump is doing a lot to weaken the best military in the world. Let us hope that Trump is out before the military succumbs to his designs.
What I would like is if you talk about Russia and Ukraine do some research. Russia is dying out there. They cannot manage without the support of North Korea for soldiers, Iran and Venezuela for weapons, and Trump to get rid of sanctions. Those getting rid of sanctions is like the US sending weapons to Russia to use on Ukraine, because that is going to be us helping to pay for them. Ukraine needs support, but with it, they are well positioned to negotiate a peace.
Sharing it with my Gen Z family members to see what they think.
Thank you for making that point. It's a crucial but neglected part of the story.
The combined GDP of the US and the EU is 22 times that of Russia.
Between them, the US, the EU, and Ukraine have more than three times as many active-duty soldiers as Russia. More than a quarter of the activity-duty soldiers in the US, the EU, and Ukraine are Ukrainians, who ask for no boots on the ground from other countries. They ask for military equipment and ammunition as they continue to defend their borders and, in the process, the eastern edge of democratic Europe.
Drones, relatively inexpensive, play an increasing role in how the war is being fought. Advantage: Ukraine
Russia is weak. A coalition of the willing can send the Russian army home. The US has withdrawn from the coalition and thereby diminished it, as the US negotiates with Russia about how to divide Europe between them, either forgetting the lessons of the Sudetenland crisis and the Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact or remembering them and saying to themselves "Let's give it another try."
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It makes me crazy that people think Russia is so strong. Ukraine is doing amazingly well with its innovative drone warfare.
And Russia has a corrupt military and governmental structure that weakens everything they try to do. Kleptocracies and not deigned to run a country well. That is what the USA is by the way under Trump and Musk. So, as Trump tanks the economy with his tariffs, which I believe are raising such hostility to the US the likes of which have not been seen before, that there will be less GDP, and less collected taxes to pay the military who may go looking for people who will pay them. In any case, Trump is doing a lot to weaken the best military in the world. Let us hope that Trump is out before the military succumbs to his designs.