▶Latest >Russia says it will "Drastically reduce" combat operations around Kyiv & Chernihiv >Ukrainian forces recapture Irpin, northwest of capital >Russia has deployed Wagner Group mercs to eastern Ukraine, UK's MoD says >Abramovich allegedly poisoned at peace talks, since recovered >Ukrainian partisans around Kherson continue to tie down RU units in the region >Russia abandons large scale objectives and claims "main goal" of war is to secure Donetsk & Luhansk oblasts >Missiles hit fuel depot in Lviv >Russians will likely make important progress in seizing the city of Mariupol in coming days - ISW >Ukraine claims to have killed Lt Gen Yakov Ryezantsev, the commander of the 49th Russian Southern District Army >If true, this is the 7th Russian General KIA (worst loss senior command since ww2) >UA forces sink alligator class landing ship at anchor in Berdyansk, 2 other ships damaged >UA forces repelled RU attempts to advance on Brovary from northeast & encircle Chernihiv >Russia moving to phase of protracted bombardment of cities due to failure of initial campaign to encircle & seize major cities - ISW >Russian missile hits closed shopping mall in capital, killing 8. Site being used to store military vehicles. >Andrey Paliy, Dpty Commander of Black Sea Fleet, killed by UA forces in Mariupol
>30+ days of war >lviv still not in ruins vatnikbros what wrong with us??
Gabriel Lopez
The United States must do more than issue sanctions and economic penalties against Russia. US leaders should be marshaling an international coalition of the willing, readying military forces to drive out Putin from Ukraine. If Russia prevails again, we will remain stuck in a crisis not just over Ukraine but about the future of the global order far beyond that country’s borders. Left unrestrained, Putin will move swiftly, grab some land, consolidate his gains, and set his sights on the next satellite state in his long game to restore all the Warsaw Pact's pre-1989 borders, the sphere of geographical influence he deems was unjustly stripped from Great Russia.
Once Ukraine has been dealt with, America should turn its attention to Russia. It will probably not be possible to remove Putin quickly without a NATO invasion and occupation--though it will hardly require half a million men, since Putin's army is much diminished since the Cold War, and we will probably have plenty of help from the Russian people, once they trust that we intend to finish the job this time.
Once we have deposed Putin, we can impose an American-led, international regency in Moscow, to go along with the one in Kiev. This may turn out to be one of those hinge moments in history--events like the storming of the Bastille or the fall of the Berlin Wall--after which everything is different. If the occupation goes well, it may mark the moment when the powerful antibiotic known as democracy was introduced into the diseased environment of Eastern Europe, and began to transform the region for the better.
For the United States, this represents perhaps the last, best chance to do what it has singularly failed to do since WW2--to provide Eastern Europe with imperial oversight. It is not entirely America's fault, but our mismanagement and misconceptions have allowed a backward, insignificant nation to become arguably the main threat to the security of the United States and the entire West.
Ukrainian men are fighting and dying for the people who do this shit. Makes sense, they’ve allowed their women to be mail order brides and low rent hookers for a long time now.
thanks for you input. It's relevant to the special military operation in Ukraine, because? Or are you implying vatniks routinely fucking each other in the ass is better because?
Did you know there is historical precedence for this? It was the battle of Teutoberg forest. No one gave the germans a chance. And yet they pushed back the romans and destroyed 3 of their legions. Effectively ending the roman quest to turn germany into a roman colony.
He left out the part where the Gulf War's ground operations began 1 month before it ended, and how the war concluded with 300 coalition deaths. But of course, Russia's a shithole incapable of conducting an air campaign so it's not really a fair comparison.
