It's not so much a question of Western military officers especially those in the weak and highly unprepared for intense peer level combat British military borrowing or stealing Ukrainian valor as #NATO constructing a synthetic CDO of its own valor made up of #Ukrainian tranches. And 2008 is coming.
And even if they do acknowledge the problem of attrition and or our severely weakened defense industrial base, they still perceive it solely through the lens of ramping up production, not what happens when #NATO begins to run out of Ukrainian males to press gang into holding the Ukraine frontlines.
But after decades of fighting insurgents and thinking a mass casualty event is one VBIED going off somewhere in a Iraqi or Afghan village as opposed to an Iskander missile leveling the building you're billeted in, 'worldwarwoke ist' officers still don't perceive war as a test of societal wills.
The core issue isn't that US officers think they're 'pro-Ukraine' by demanding #NATO fight #Russia 'to the last #Ukrainian' male. It's that they still believe in victory on the cheap, without having to explain to any peers much less a skeptical public NATO advisors dying in non-disavowable numbers.
Because we've had Syrians and now for the last three years Ukrainians willing to do the bleeding and dying plus some Georgian and Colombian mercenaries, this bubble hasn't been penetrated. Not even by the US Navy pulling CVNs back from Houthi attacks or Israel going near-Winchester on AD missiles.
The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moniyhan said everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts. When you have an increasingly woke officer corps particularly those who've ended up deep in the DC bubble confusing #NAFO land slop with reality, that's a problem bsky.app/profile/tyre...
No 'the Europeans' did not do 'the best they could'. They are too arrogant or blackmailed to accept defeat and too cowardly to send their troops/advisors to openly fight in #Ukraine. #Trump's disdain for them has been well earned.
People live and lived in the Donbass towns and cities that got shelled for eight years until 2022 as well.
The 'Russian hack' of the DNC was a fabrication.
The 'intelligence community' has long been overdue for a purge. Systemic lying and laundering 'friendly governments' fabricated intel must be punished.
The guy lives in a perpetual 1985 in his head, and has for over a decade. Tom Nichols can't accept that the world has changed since the Reagan era and so has the Republican Party. I didn't vote for Trump in 2016 btw. But I knew the Russia Collusion Hoax was just that. Nichols is a BoomerNeocon.
Where was your concern about the sacred territorial integrity of #Serbia in 1999? But even that aside, it would be up to the 'Ukrainians and no one else' if their corrupt wartime dictator president weren't demanding billions upon billions of dollars in aid and equipment from us. But #Zelensky is.
I'm saying the opposite. He's saying 'we' must oppose aggression but like nearly everyone else on MS-DNC or in the BoomerLibCon Blob he never discusses the reality that #Ukraine is running out of manpower. In other words, without a ceasefire someone else will have to send troops to fight over there.
And unfortunately the US/UK intel communities, especially the rabid about refighting the Crimean War with someone else's bodies Brits, repeat this 'noble lie' to prop up Ukrainian morale. Half a million KIA and a comparable number missing limbs or otherwise maimed who will never bear arms is reality
Or alternatively, the #Ukrainian State is lying its ass off about taking significantly worse casualties than the #Russians (just like they lie to you gullible pro-UA liberals on here about all the #WW2 #Nazi collaborator glorification in their Institute of National Memory approved history books).
In other words, all you need is to thump your chest curse Putler harder and praise Zelenskyyyy more and the Russians will be defeated. The #Ukrainians will continue to serve as an infinite meatshield/bottomless well of manpower so that #NATO servicemen don't have to bleed and die to push Russia back
The Blue Sky WorldWarWoke ist BoomerNeocon convergence.
The problem with all this endless posturing by @radiofreetom.bsky.social and other BoomerLibCons is the presumed cost of rejecting any land-swap deal with #Russia is only moral outrage and money or equipment. It is never measured in caskets with someone else's non #Ukrainian sons and daughters.
You guys chased off #Yanukovych only to turn #Ukraine into a wartime Khazar-Banderastan dictatorship far more repressive than anything Yanuk or his crooked advisors could've dreamt up and fed 750,000 #Ukrainian men into a KIA/maimed meatgrinder to prove you belonged in 'the West'. Congratulations!
Use your brain. Why other than population disparity would #Ukraine need to press gang men off the streets, of which there are thousands of videos, while the Russians can fight on with volunteers? Why is there an Arlington-sized cemetery planned outside #Kiev and they ran out of graves in #Lviv?
As I like to troll "punch a #Nazi" #WorldWarWoke ist vets, you're never gonna believe which side of #WW2 #Lviv / #Lemberg in the #Ukrainian nationalist heartland was on from July 1941-July 1944. Also vets who subtweet #MAGA about the #CivilWar deserve a subtweet about #WaffenSS Galitzien's fate.
Yes. And if you woke vets don't like it, I hear the Ukrainian Foreign Legion is recruiting.
And a massive PR campaign fueled by the world's most powerful intel agencies, a quarter trillion dollars in US/UK/EU taxpayer aid, the word's best CISR spoonfed to your defenders to keep AD radars in passive mode, and conservatively at least 5,000 KIA'd NATO country disavowed combatants, Kate.
When you constantly tell yourself things like, "Putin is a pariah world leader (except to 4/7ths of the world population that's African, Indian or Chinese)" or "Ukraine's casualties are surely lower than Russia's" there's compound interest of psychological weight from denying reality for so long.
I don't think this is going to play out the way you folks here in your fake liberal super hawks @bsky.app bubble imagine it will.
Um what, no? I'm here to troll all the WorldWarWoke ist liberal veterans on this platform that constantly think just sending MOAR money or drone wunderwaffen is going to turn the tide without anyone having to pay a political price for American, British and Canadian 'advisors' coming back in caskets.
Oh and yes the Japanese won in 1905, though with a hell of a lot more British help than acknowledged by US/UK military historians. And 40 years later during Operation Autumn Storm the Red Army curb stomped a Kwantung Army of one million men. So yeah the Russians got some payback for that.
One of the core tenants of BA Friedman and Team WorldWarWoke is not only that victory over the Russians is achievable, but that it can be accomplished on the cheap, without him or any other pro-UA liberal veteran having to explain how many non-Ukrainians are willing to bleed and die for Ukraine.
'Europe first' and 'we can walk in #Ukraine and chew gum at the same time in the Indo-Pacific' is just a euphemism for British refight the #CrimeanWar nostalgia and Eastern European ethno tribal grievances first over American interests. Absolutely Kiev is draining US Patriot stocks from JPN/TWN.