And Russia will have a whole lot of battle hardened Russified (Ukrainian) troops plus their hardware and industry to add to their efforts. Betrayed and angry troops. Who will have a legitimate grudge against the west and especially the US
You mean in Russia? I was poking at the possibility of a Ukrainian loss.
NATO has enforced No Fly zones in a lot of places - the Turks however have shot down Russian Aircraft over Syria enforcing a No Fly there.
All of which could be run out of Poland.
The only acceptable end to this conflict is Ukraine back to its initial 1991 borders, the quicker the better, for everyone.The US could just announce they'll be working with partners to help enforce a no fly zone over Ukraine, and the public wouldn't really raise an eye - because not many ppl realize all the other assets that would need to also be deployed (Hence public ignorance & easy to escalate without perhaps meaning to)
Something I don't think is appreciated here as much as it should be is that Ukraine is running low on troops, aka the number of young (and old) Ukrainians who are dead as a result of this war is truly mind boggling...
We all know that the casualty numbers for both sides are way higher than what's currently being counted - not to mention the troops who get classified as 'missing in action' because they literally got blown to pieces or turned into pink mist
We all also know that Ukraine's civilian population has taken far more casualties than Russia's...
My point simply being that this war needs to end as soon as freaking possible.
We've discussed on this forum before that Ukraine may have been able to absorb their combat losses better than Russia could, even though Russia has the significantly larger population...but did any of us foresee the war dragging on for this long? Or being this brutal?
Ukraine isn't just running low on troops. It's running low on men, period - because a lot of them are dead. (Ukraine's gender demographics are gonna be so screwed up once the dust settles from all of this)
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From a strict legal aspect Defense like that inside a another country doesn't make you party to the conflict.
I think we know the answer is yes.
not sure what hes playing at. I dont think the Belarussian Armed Forces have this fight in them. Might just be a bluff to keep Putin off his back.
yeah but can uncle Putler save him this time if theres another potential uprising?
A slew of folks left Belarus who were either resistant to him, or sympathetic to those who resisted. I’m not sure if the Belarusian resistance have the strength these days to actively topple him.
I suspect an effort to tie down Ukrainian forces, not an attack- just the threat thereof — that said Putin may be that desperate.
If they don’t watch themselves, they’re fixing to nibble some tungsten.
“Thank you Belarus for the new gear!”
Exactly.
