| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Blackrock | |
| Posted by: | Francis Rowe | |
| Date/Time: | 13/02/24 09:20:00 |
| Following and reposting these random crackpot accounts makes her feel like being a part of a community of like-minded individuals. It's a bit like being a member of the Flat Earth Society. Nobody really believes in it all but they think it makes them interesting and gains them some attention. There are a number of things to unpick here though. First the claim that 'USA warmongers' and their puppet government are losing. The problem with that is that Putin just restated his war aims this week in his rambling interview with Lord Haw Haw. The psuedo history that he read in his bunker during covid led him to believe that Ukraine does not exist as a separate entity to Russia and he set out to make that a reality. This primary war aim has failed massively. Attacking Ukraine with overwhelming force including air superiority should have led to a quick victory but he underestimated his own military's massive deficiencies and the resolve of the Ukrainian people. The outcome has been the transformation of free Ukraine into a country with a very strong and clear notion of itself as a separate state and a people that will resist incorporation into Russia for generations. Putin has therefore already lost the war in terms of what he set out to achieve. Ukraine certainly hasn't won the war as it has failed to clear the territory of the invader and the fairly horrifying prospect of another decade of conflict lies ahead. It is hard to see what possible alternative exists for them as, even if some sort of peace was to be agreed, Putin has made clear what his aims are and had never adhered to previous treaties. The only winners in this conflict have been western arms manufacturers. Russian equipment has been shown to be deficient and 'the world's second most powerful army' has been reduced to sending out meat waves of the sweepings of their prisons, backed by North Korean shells and Iranian drones made using microchips cannabalised from western made fridges. Their museums have been cleared out of tanks and those that remain can't even be put up against western personnel carriers let alone German, American and UK tanks. Meanwhile the eastern European members of NATO have given all their Soviet equipment to Ukraine re-equipping with next generation kit and seen two of the most effective armies in Europe join their side. The demand for western weapons is such that factories can't cope as countries around the world place orders for munitions that have performed so well in this conflict. These are based on technology and innovation which comes from the west being a free society. Even China has to rely on IP theft to develop its technological industries. Ironically it is the same thing that has brought us gender neutral toilets that has made us militarily unchallengeable. |