Newfie wrote:Funny, I had not considered the "pampered prince" syndrome.
Makes sense.
Newfie wrote:But Taiwan would be the same, no?
Newfie wrote:
And I do believe there is more going on there than we/I know of. I keep going back to the weeks. BEFORE Covid, when China was turning away contracted ship loads of iron ore. Something bad was going on before Covid.
Newfie wrote:What scares me about Ukraine is that the whole mess makes no sense from a Russian view point, but knucklehead went forward anyway.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
A large minority is still a minority and should not hold power.However by the time the USSR fell apart the populations of the Baltic states had been significantly shifted to have large Russian minorities.
Newfie wrote:Tanada,
Understand your point. And a good long perspective analysis.
My comment was more to the short term execution of the event. It makes no sense to e courage corruption within your armed forces and then expect them to perform. The original battle plan was not thought out. Having separate military groups with separate leadership is a problem. Using your missles on civilian targets. Encouraging rape and pillage by your troops is a sure way to build western support for Ukraine.
There were more effective was for Putin to strengthen Russia, encouraging economic entanglement for example. But he chose a path for which he did not prepare properly, now it is producing negative results, by Western standards anyway. By our standards he should have prepared for the invasion better and had some unified command. I suspect he is very wary of a strong military, that is why he has Wagner and others. All the bickering between leadership means no on is strong enough to mount a coup.
Everything I read says the same, Putin is alone and isolated and making poor decisions.
Every thing I read about Xi makes the same points, isolation and poor decisions.
Newfie wrote:Yeah, BUT I have seen lots of pictures of dogs with porcupine bristles, sometimes kills them. The way to get skunk sti k out of a dog is with tomato juice, I once had a very stupid dog that would not learn.
Newfie wrote:Yeah, BUT I have seen lots of pictures of dogs with porcupine bristles, sometimes kills them. The way to get skunk stink out of a dog is with tomato juice, I once had a very stupid dog that would not learn.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
vtsnowedin wrote: pampered princes and not likely to become good soldiers no matter how they are trained.
theluckycountry wrote: I think you will find that's it's the US military that is full of miscreants and no hopers these days.
AdamB wrote:theluckycountry wrote: I think you will find that's it's the US military that is full of miscreants and no hopers these days.
Indeed, what does the US military know, other than how to take and hold territory on the other side of the planet? The national building was entertaining, and unsuccessful. Some folks just don't want modern. I suppose the only way to compare the US to any other military power would be like saying that the US can invade most everyone else in the world as effectively as..oh...Australia could invade Antarctica? And that is a bit of a tossup, some of those scientist types will have hair pins and scissors and stuff to fight off a powder puff military force of Sissys....sorry...Aussies....
Now, New Zealand, that gang could easily conquer Antartica, and probably knock off Australia just to get another forward operating base to do it from.
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