Thank you. I had not seen Gideon Rose saying that. What he said was exactly right. He was in silicon investor decades ago and I'd chat with him. See tekboi name in fadg.
I sent him a message early in the war but he hasn't been reading SI for years I suppose. Life gets busy. Moves course.
I'm super impressed by Putin's reasonable restraint. I'd have cut to the chase months ago ago and demanded my resolution (which Elon copy/pasted) or the MAD escalation, slow or fast, starts now. But years ago I saw Putin explaining that war is just numbers and arithmetic and logic .. so he obviously, judging by actions, calculated the logical outcome and increased pressure gradually.
He couldn't possibly win against whizbang clever rocketry and photoelectron systems and sure enough, tanks are destroyed by a bloke with a clever little rocket. And all mod cons such as satellite observer GPS targeting with infrared sensors that show people under trees.
It looked like another April Glaspie trick = bait Russia into Ukraine and a turkey shoot. Russia would have thought "We'll see how that goes and get MAD if necessary."
In 1988 a BP Oil colleague and I were discussing oil, price and geopolitics. I said what Exxon/USA needed was "a bullet through the middle east". Sure enough, a year or so later Saddam was baited into it and IraqKuwait oil production was off-line.
The Iran/Iraq war wasn't enough - USA backing Saddam in that.
There's no way in Hell Russia will retreat fom Eastern Ukraine. They will go nuclear starting with illegal USA positions in Syria and keep scaling up depending on USA/Eurostan responses until the survivors call an armistice.
The Kievans are already thinking the weather in Kiev has got overcast with precipitation dampening spirits. Maybe Zelensky could give another Crimea weather report.
Americans still think it's balmy pleasant summery weather in Peoria. But there's a hurricane category 10 forming across the Atlantic ocean. Current USA conversation = "Hey, what gender are you today? You have excellent skin color and great diversity."
Euroserfs are already running out of jobs, money, heat and getting concerned. France bailing out of NATO. The Italians voted out the LLL. Others wobbling. The 4th Reich isn't rock solid either.
But Yanks chose Hunter and DementiaJoe10%, Nuland and co-conspirators, Euroserfs chose Liz Truss, Boris, Ursula, Sanna, Annalena and other warmongers women and girly-men. Compare Boris Johnson with Winston Churchill. Queen Elizabeth II started with Winston and ended with Boris/Liz, handing over to King Charles Spaniel.
USA went from Eisenhower to Hunter and Joe10% with harridan Hillary Clinton's coven lurking.
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