Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

The evolving scenario we have seen in Ukraine is putin burning through his military forces to grind to a virtual standstill and to no longer have the resources to take advantage of any supply issues Ukraine has faced and might face in the future.

He can't even defend his empire effectively anymore with Kursk still being partly occupied by the Armed forces of Ukraine and regular successful strikes by Ukraine deep into putin's terrorist state to weaken their economy and military capabilities. Recent assaults by putin's terrorists have looked more like a band of scavengers from Mad Max movies rather than military operations.

Europe just needs to be able to support the Ukraines defensively until Russia can no longer attack which is estimated to be months rather than years.

And this mornings headlines

"U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system"

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-could-cut-ukraines-access-starlink-internet-services-over-minerals-say-2025-02-22/

Or a Reichstag fire type incident for Trump to consolidate power and make himself an absolute furher.

The current situation won’t continue. It’s neither here nor there. Either Trump gets overthrown or he becomes an outright Dictator.
Trump / Musk are the antithesis of predictable reliable democratic government.
They despise it. They want chaos and adversity and knocking counterparts and enemies off balance.

if there was still any doubt out there…

Trump would welcome a terrorist attack as it would rally people to the flag. He's working off Putins playbook so false flags are only a matter of time.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"

The harder part would be "what happens next?"

So a combined EU force smashes Russias war machine, how do we run Russia then?

It would be a mistake to repeat the US in Iraq, however I think that unlikely considering Russias is a backyard issue.

But it's not poor gameplay as such; they're going in there intending to give Russia most of what they want.

Polish President on yesterday's candid call with Zelensky. Seems like he supports Trumps way of thinking about ending the conflict and believes only with US help and dialogue with the Russians that can be achieved.

Seems he has changed his mind on things compared to a couple of weeks ago.

We don't run them. Just smash them and leave them to it.

It’s amazing how things pan out Roy Cohn Trumps life long fixer and mentor “Cohn played a major role in McCarthy's anti-Communist hearings. During the Lavender Scare, Cohn and McCarthy alleged that Soviet Bloc intelligence services had blackmailed multiple U.S. Federal Government employees into committing espionage in return for not exposing their closeted homosexuality.‘

Ironically, now we have Trump whose first election victory was delivered in a not insignificant way through Russian election interference. He was also financially propped up by Russians in the early 90’s and now he is openly doing the Russians bidding v the Ukraine and Europe.

It’s a pity the EU doesn’t openly call him out on this. A traitor is all he is.

What I am confident of does not matter. This thread is about the invasion of Ukraine so they are the only ones whose opinion matters and the political and military leaders there are the ones with sufficient information to judge how long to continue the fight to protect their country from genocide and terrorism from putin's forces. Zelenskyy is not going to come out publicly and say they do not want assistance from the USA even if Trump is trying to renege on his country's commitments to protect Ukraine after they gave up their soviet nuclear weapons and many officials in the Ukraine government will make statements along the same lines as weapons from the USA have helped them deal with putin's terrorists. Trump pulling out USA support for their fight against terrorism will cost Ukrainian lives.