| | | Bitterly cold Global Warming striking Aotearoa-Zimbabwe Banana Republic [now republic with QEII death].
Good old David Stockman from decades ago I assume.
In the game of Chicken that the crazed Yanks declared on Russia and Putin, Putin threw the steering wheel out the window.
All that remains is for USA to decide:
Shall we go left into the bank
Right into the ditch
Or plough straight into MAD and the glassing of USA in the world's biggest Lose-Lose-Lose... n.
Actually. There is a 4th option. Just apply the brakes heavily and STOP. Putin will assuredly stop too as he and Russia have zero reason to increase the horrors. For months he wanted a truce and negotiation and peace.
The Evil-doing USA/NATO/Vladimir Zelensky did NOT want a truce and negotiation.
So, instead of just having independent Luhansk and Donetsk, they have got all of it gone actually into Russia along with huge death and destruction, maiming and trauma, displacement and pointless ruination of lives. As well the intransigence has lost further along to the south and east towards Odessa.
But $100 billions have been looted so to those recipients it is very worthwhile.
I'm assuming a 10 to 20 nuclear weapon series of tits and tats, total about 20 megatons of smaller and larger hither and yon of various types and strategies. Then USA will climb on the brakes, phone Vladimir's phone receptionist and call for a halt. If the tat has not just been delivered, then the receptionist will report a tit has been delivered and a truce will ensue thereafter, but the USA must accept that tit without response.
USA/NATO has over 10x as much to lose as does Russia, so they will call off the attacks.
1 billion people to lose, plus $100 trillion economic activity, and gigatons of assets.
vs
0.1 billion people to lose [spread way further out so a lower proportion would be killed], plus a $trillion or so economics and nothing like the assets.
It's as when Putin explained he cornered a rat as a youngster. The rat leapt at him in desperate attack. Having so much more to lose than a nothing rat, he backed off and the rat fled.
Such lessons imprint well.
In this instance, the USA has cornered a bear, not a rat. Cornering a bear, which is comparable size, is not a good activity to choose instead of golf, fishing, building fancy cars etc.
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