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Thank god you live in Europe and not in Russia. You could have have been Navalny and poisoned for daring to have a sensible view compared to Putins czarism- make the poor poorer and reward oligarch mates.
I think the fact that the russians are fighting for money whereas the Ukrainians are fighting for their country has to be considered .
Irrespective of what time line you place on the outcome that fact will have a huge bearing on the end game .
Big bully russia will never subjugate a country the size of Ukraine no matter what behind the door deals are made .
They're blood is in their soil .
russia never has been and never will be trusted , even more so now.
What military capabilities are those then?
After three years of invading his much smaller neighbour, Putin's mighty war machine has been bogged down in First World War style trench warfare where they've been grinding forward with incremental gains. His troops have sustained massive casualties due to the medieval tactics they've used, he's had to resort to conscripting from prisons, faced a very public mutiny and the shortage of armoured vehicles is such that they ferry troops to the front in Ladas, which are often picked off by drones. He was humiliated when the Ukrainians sank his flagship missile cruiser Moskva and what's left of the Black Sea fleet has largely withdrawn from Sevastopol to the far side of the Black Sea at Novorossiysk, where they are out of range of Ukrainian missiles. Apart from being used as long range missile launch pads, where the targets are usually civilian in nature, the Black Sea fleet is no longer much of a threat.
Where was the 'blitzkrieg'? On paper they should have steamrollered across Ukraine, taken Kiev and arrived at the Polish border in days while the impotent West looked on helplessly. Instead, they failed to take Kiev and retreated, much the same with Kharkiv and Kherson was liberated. They have managed to secure a strip of Eastern Ukraine which is mostly devastated, and the towns and cities that they have taken like Mariupol for example, they have destroyed, which will cost billions of dollars to rebuild. I'm not a military man or even an armchair general, but Putin's 'Special Military Operation' doesn't strike me as a runaway success.
Well Starmer has nailed his flag by going agin the US and saying Ukraine should be considered for NATO..
Is this the start of the new order? NATO morphs into MOE ( most of Europe) US departs ( but might come back) . MOE steps up spend on defence ( and we all become poorer except holders of shares in defence companies)
Funnily enough, I do agree with Vance that Europe is fractured and losing the plot. Exactly one of the reasons why some folk voted agin UK staying in the EU. However now is no time for the UK to distance itself from a European Army or whatever name it might need.
And to add to the above, J D Vance was right when he said the danger for us (and most of Europe) comes from within. Our country is full of immigrants who don't share our history and, (in some cases) hate us.
I'm not getting into all of the damage being done by pandering to folk who think they can be anything they want, and demand that we respect that idea. And the ones who suffer health or mental problems that excuses them from contributing.
It's the perfect storm.
And that plays into what I've been saying on here for years. The UK, along with every other European country are no more than shouty, annoying little nations who are living in the past. Our great history means nothing (in fact, it causes hatred) to other nations, we cannot live in the past.Damn it! I agree with you!!
I'm sick of hearing people say we are the 5th or 6th richest country in the world. Someone who earns £1000 a week but spends £1200 and is up to their neck in debt is not as rich as someone who earns half as much but lives within their means.
Of course, all of the European nations could come together and be a force to be reckoned with. But we've tried that and it was, and is, an unmitigated disaster.
In my simplistic view of life, I like to take everything down to the level of the playground. Big boys hit little boys and take their sweeties. Little boys try to suck up to big boys for protection, as we have with the US for years. But big boys aren't fussed if someone hits one of their little boys , as long as they divide the sweeties. The US, Russia and China will be the three superpowers that shape the world in the future, and all of our governments platitudes won't change that.
Now.......all Trump has to do to make himself a true equal partner is to make sure he can't be voted out. Watch this space.
If you have access to the Telegraph, this is how a lot of people in the know are seeing it:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/15/this-is-how-ukraine-war-ends-trump-plan-for-what-next/
