I don’t even know the point of asking such a question when the answer has been painfully obvious past 2 year. The answer is obviously “No”
Why are these questions still being asked 2 years in?
European industry expansion is a clear yes regardless of individual commentary.
No
Public: No. Many will only understand when they face it themselfs 😪
2 months ago, no.
Now, yes.
Times are changing, France is fucking IN.
That leaves 1 core European nation at odds against Russia, now is the time to choose between cowardice or Democracy. Countries will have to make a choice to stand with France or show Putin that a divided Europe might not be so dangerous.
Macron made the right move, now fellow European leaders have to make the right decissions.
It doesn’t
Until we vote the Russian assets out of our government, there will be no concerted effort to help Ukraine. Americans must vote for Biden, to help keep the free world free.
Judging by the past two years, no it does not.
I agree with the general consensus for now. I’m hoping France, and the F-16s comes through and turns the tide.
Obviously, not, if we did, the war would already be over
The only one who can halt the war is Russia. The West can for sure escalate it, but short of annihilating Russia, the West can’t halt the Russian effort.
They cant even impose real sanctions. Oil revenues are still going strong. No real intention to stop that.
On paper we have forces and assets that could quickly cripple large chunks of the Russian army, but absolutely none wants a war with Russia, now or ever, so we do everything possible not to provoke them. So, in response, they will start engaging in widespread “deniable” activities for which no Western government would justify entering an armed conflict, until we have lost pipelines, fiber optic cables and satellites to “unknown actors” to the extent that we can barely function.
Our societies have become too self-absorbed, focused on consumption, wokeism, identity politics, grievances, racist replacement theories, etc. We have no real stomach for war anymore, because we deluded ourselves into believing that Globalism would render it obsolete.
I’m no longer optimistic about the future. The more I see and learn every day, the more I’m convinced that Kasparov was right. Enjoy life as much as you can, because things will get very dark. I’m old enough not to give a shit, but it’s really not fair for the young guys and gals who will pay the price.
westernworld dont helping Ukraina at all now USA stopp deliviring weapons the great peaceceeper ..If Russia winns westerncompanys is back buisiness as usual ,kapitalism as it greatest..i am so dissapinted at the west
I’m an American. This may be an unpopular question, but I feel the need to ask it: “what is the plan for the West to intervene? How would you like the US, France, or NATO to intervene? What does an intervention look like?”
Do we have the capability? Of course, without a doubt. The US could turn back the Russian invasion in a week.
But what does an intervention by NATO mean for Europe and the world?
I don’t think resolve is the issue.
What noone ever talks about is the balance that Ukraine and the west are playing with the russian commitment to the war. Everyone likes to pretend is that Russia is weak and a paper tiger, what in fact it’s just mismanaged. For the last 2 years Russians have been trying to brush off this conflict as a military operation, but not a war. People think that this is a play on words and make fun of it, but it’s actually the correct term from the Russian perspective. The people in charge know this and one of the reasons I believe that we haven’t seen an escalation of the conflict by the west is they don’t want the Russians to declare war on Ukraine. The the Russians don’t want to declare war either because it makes them look weak because of internal politics bs.
This might just sound like some stupid pedantics, but if the Russians declared war they can turn on the war machine to a 10 from what currently is maybe a 3-4. What it means is that the Russians May Assemble hundreds of thousands of new troops give them weapons and let them loose. The losses on the Russian side would be horrendous but the ukrainians Can’t Stop a million Russian troops, they will quite literally run out of ammo
Why does this matter? The problem is that the West can’t act too quickly because Ukraine can’t handle a large Russian Force in one shot, but they can handle the Russian army in smaller bite-sized flavors. If Russia declared formal war two years ago Ukraine would be absolutely leveled, but two years of conflict in bite-sized waves has diminished the capability of the Russian army so the longer you cranky keep this up the smaller the full Russian Force will ultimately be.
So every time the West gives Ukraine new support like the the f-16s you roll the dice that the Russians May declare formal war against Ukraine since you force Russia to act on their previous red line or you force them to back pedal just a little bit. So we’re at the point of 2 years of Russian backpedaling means that France might send some troops to Ukraine to protect its northern flank and maybe provide some anti-air coverage to protect their troops. And Russia will have to look at themselves and be like well do we declare war now or back pedal just a little bit.
At least that’s my 2 cents of how I see things.
Any story that poses a headline as a question, the answer is always No.
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I don’t even know the point of asking such a question when the answer has been painfully obvious past 2 year. The answer is obviously “No”
Why are these questions still being asked 2 years in?
European industry expansion is a clear yes regardless of individual commentary.
No
Public: No. Many will only understand when they face it themselfs 😪
2 months ago, no.
Now, yes.
Times are changing, France is fucking IN.
That leaves 1 core European nation at odds against Russia, now is the time to choose between cowardice or Democracy. Countries will have to make a choice to stand with France or show Putin that a divided Europe might not be so dangerous.
Macron made the right move, now fellow European leaders have to make the right decissions.
It doesn’t
Until we vote the Russian assets out of our government, there will be no concerted effort to help Ukraine. Americans must vote for Biden, to help keep the free world free.
Judging by the past two years, no it does not.
I agree with the general consensus for now. I’m hoping France, and the F-16s comes through and turns the tide.
Obviously, not, if we did, the war would already be over
The only one who can halt the war is Russia. The West can for sure escalate it, but short of annihilating Russia, the West can’t halt the Russian effort.
They cant even impose real sanctions. Oil revenues are still going strong. No real intention to stop that.
On paper we have forces and assets that could quickly cripple large chunks of the Russian army, but absolutely none wants a war with Russia, now or ever, so we do everything possible not to provoke them. So, in response, they will start engaging in widespread “deniable” activities for which no Western government would justify entering an armed conflict, until we have lost pipelines, fiber optic cables and satellites to “unknown actors” to the extent that we can barely function.
Our societies have become too self-absorbed, focused on consumption, wokeism, identity politics, grievances, racist replacement theories, etc. We have no real stomach for war anymore, because we deluded ourselves into believing that Globalism would render it obsolete.
I’m no longer optimistic about the future. The more I see and learn every day, the more I’m convinced that Kasparov was right. Enjoy life as much as you can, because things will get very dark. I’m old enough not to give a shit, but it’s really not fair for the young guys and gals who will pay the price.
westernworld dont helping Ukraina at all now USA stopp deliviring weapons the great peaceceeper ..If Russia winns westerncompanys is back buisiness as usual ,kapitalism as it greatest..i am so dissapinted at the west
I’m an American. This may be an unpopular question, but I feel the need to ask it: “what is the plan for the West to intervene? How would you like the US, France, or NATO to intervene? What does an intervention look like?”
Do we have the capability? Of course, without a doubt. The US could turn back the Russian invasion in a week.
But what does an intervention by NATO mean for Europe and the world?
I don’t think resolve is the issue.
What noone ever talks about is the balance that Ukraine and the west are playing with the russian commitment to the war. Everyone likes to pretend is that Russia is weak and a paper tiger, what in fact it’s just mismanaged. For the last 2 years Russians have been trying to brush off this conflict as a military operation, but not a war. People think that this is a play on words and make fun of it, but it’s actually the correct term from the Russian perspective. The people in charge know this and one of the reasons I believe that we haven’t seen an escalation of the conflict by the west is they don’t want the Russians to declare war on Ukraine. The the Russians don’t want to declare war either because it makes them look weak because of internal politics bs.
This might just sound like some stupid pedantics, but if the Russians declared war they can turn on the war machine to a 10 from what currently is maybe a 3-4. What it means is that the Russians May Assemble hundreds of thousands of new troops give them weapons and let them loose. The losses on the Russian side would be horrendous but the ukrainians Can’t Stop a million Russian troops, they will quite literally run out of ammo
Why does this matter? The problem is that the West can’t act too quickly because Ukraine can’t handle a large Russian Force in one shot, but they can handle the Russian army in smaller bite-sized flavors. If Russia declared formal war two years ago Ukraine would be absolutely leveled, but two years of conflict in bite-sized waves has diminished the capability of the Russian army so the longer you cranky keep this up the smaller the full Russian Force will ultimately be.
So every time the West gives Ukraine new support like the the f-16s you roll the dice that the Russians May declare formal war against Ukraine since you force Russia to act on their previous red line or you force them to back pedal just a little bit. So we’re at the point of 2 years of Russian backpedaling means that France might send some troops to Ukraine to protect its northern flank and maybe provide some anti-air coverage to protect their troops. And Russia will have to look at themselves and be like well do we declare war now or back pedal just a little bit.
At least that’s my 2 cents of how I see things.
Any story that poses a headline as a question, the answer is always No.