11-23-2024, 01:08 PM
This post was last modified 11-23-2024, 01:11 PM by UltraBudgie.
(11-23-2024, 11:39 AM)jaded Wrote: No one wants to give Putin any credit but his restraint & foot dragging is costing him politically in Russia. Just felt that needed acknowledged.
True.
No one paints a picture of what "winning" looks like that is in any way realistic. Perhaps that's because it is more profitable to "fail", both in terms of sustaining defense budgets, and in terms of all the myriad policy and alignment goals that can be achieved along the road to quagmire, before "sound minds" transmute aversion into political capital.
It's Europe's turn to step up and find that out, I suppose. Perhaps we're on the road to a "pole shift"?
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