US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

[MichVandal]

Well I'm sure people there believe it but no one with internet access does.

You mean other than the ones who recently just lost so many of their followers.... (as was pointed out to me)

 

[rufus]

Funny how the bully's demeanor changes when you punch him in the mouth.

Russia no longer demanding the unconditional surrender of Ukraine? Huh.

US and NATO need to give Ukraine all the weapons and other support they need to drive Russia out of Donbas and Crimea, so Zelenskyy can ring up Uncle Vlad and say, "ok, now we'll talk conditions"

They've got enough people. They just need the hardware. Break Russia's army, and bring their days as a global power to an end.

 

[MichVandal]

Funny how the bully's demeanor changes when you punch him in the mouth.

Russia no longer demanding the unconditional surrender of Ukraine? Huh.

US and NATO need to give Ukraine all the weapons and other support they need to drive Russia out of Donbas and Crimea, so Zelenskyy can ring up Uncle Vlad and say, "ok, now we'll talk conditions"

They've got enough people. They just need the hardware. Break Russia's army, and bring their days as a global power to an end.

Worked in Afghanistan, just took a long time. With more blatant support, this seems to be going a lot faster. Let alone crippling the russian economy to a point that there could easily be an uprising.

 

[rufus]

Any Russian artillery inside Ukraine needs to be silenced. Whatever air power they have left needs to be grounded.

Without that cover, Ukraine forces will be much freer to move openly in offensive action against Russian positions. As well as have greater ability to attack those embedded positions from above.

 

[French Rage]

Worked in Afghanistan, just took a long time. With more blatant support, this seems to be going a lot faster. Let alone crippling the russian economy to a point that there could easily be an uprising.

Ukrainians have more of a national identity than Afghans too, which gives them something more to fight for.

 

[LynahFan]

Wait maybe a month or two, then it's time for NATO to straight up take Moscow. End this once and for all.

(if only)

 

[Kepler]

If you look at the demographics of the eastern provinces, Ukraine is better off without em. The Russians stocked the east with their people the way the Israelis sent out their settlers. Just be rid of them.

Take Crimea back, though, that's where the gas reserves are.

 

[MichVandal]

Kep just pointed out the real reason for this war. I had no idea that Ukraine had so much oil potential.

 

[dxmnkd316]

This was has done more to shift the world away from oil than any other event in my lifetime.

 

[mookie1995]

Kep just pointed out the real reason for this war. I had no idea that Ukraine had so much oil potential.

and natural gas. eastern strip runs n/s, as does one in the west in the same direction. add that to what is under the black sea and you can understand where the russians are going. they get the coast and that gas is theirs.
they also wanted to release the water to crimea, which was dammed up years ago.
3rd slice of the pie was the current pipeline which transports russian energy to europe. they pay billions in fees, which they will end up paying to themselves once they secure the turf

 

[Handyman]

https://twitter.com/RF_OSCE/status/1507082820270923779

You gotta love that in an attempt to try and make the US/NATO look bad these clowns pretended that the conflict in Yugoslavia was unprovoked and then posted a picture of Baghdad...

 

[Kepler]

Inevitable.

A Russian brigade commander has been killed by his own forces in another indication of boiling discontent among Russian forces deployed in and around Ukraine, Western officials said.

The colonel, commander of the 37th Motor Rifle Brigade, was run over by an armored vehicle and suffered grave injuries to both legs.

“The brigade commander was killed by his own troops, we believe, as a consequence of the scale of losses that have been taken by his brigade,” one official said. “We believe that he was killed by his own troops deliberately. We believe that he was run over by his own troops.”

 

[Slap Shot]

Inevitable.

So they're saying they believe he was killed by his own troops.

 

[Kepler]

So they're saying they believe he was killed by his own troops.

Unclear.

 

[Kepler]

 

[Slap Shot]

Well they believe it x3 anyway.

 

[aparch]

That infographic forgot to include all the Russian arms/supplies they've captured.

 

[state of hockey]

Erdogan really doesn't like Putin, huh? Too much in common?

 

[mookie1995]

Erdogan really doesn't like Putin, huh? Too much in common?

they would each like to claim complete ownership of the black sea. putie extending his influence and coastline is a direct threat to erdo

 

[Kepler]

So this is pretty interesting. There is an antiwar movement in Russia pushing to "remove the blood from the flag of Russia."

This is also symbolic for two other reasons.

(1) The blue and white reflects the flag of Novgorad, which was one of the Kievan territories that predates Moscovy dominating the other regions:

On this map, the site of Moscow is where the label "Goliads" is.

Traditional flag of Novgorad

(2) The Russian flag is part of the Slav red/white/blue pattern on most national flags, meaning this implies a renunciation of the longtime Russian claim to be primus inter pares among Slavic nations and peoples.

Could we actually be seeing the emergence of new identities in Eastern Europe which reject an expansionist, Moscow-centric identity, the way the Germans rejected an expansive Greater Prussia after WW2? Could Russia even break up as an obsolete empire, the way Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire did a hundred years ago? Russia is really a historical remnant of the Gudunov and Romanov tsars, the way Austria-Hungary was of the Habsburgs.

The green is Muscovy. The yellow is their acquisitions under the Godunovs, immediately prior to the Romanovs. Everyting else is Romonovs.