Finland’s admission to NATO really stuck in Putin’s craw…it was an own goal on his part for sure. St.Petersburg is close to becoming a write-off as a useful base, and Russia’s upper NW border is now ringed by NATO. He really does deserve NATO’s “Top Recruiter - 2024” award!
Yup, pretty much guaranteed that any non alignment state will either:Finland’s admission to NATO really stuck in Putin’s craw…it was an own goal on his part for sure. St.Petersburg is close to becoming a write-off as a useful base, and Russia’s upper NW border is now ringed by NATO. He really does deserve NATO’s “Top Recruiter - 2024” award!
So what?Except he didn't write it. It was a ghost writer.
Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All
In “The Art of the Deal,” Tony Schwartz helped create the myth that Trump is a charming business genius. Now he calls him unfit to lead.www.newyorker.com
Never say never.
Finland’s admission to NATO really stuck in Putin’s craw…it was an own goal on his part for sure. St.Petersburg is close to becoming a write-off as a useful base, and Russia’s upper NW border is now ringed by NATO. He really does deserve NATO’s “Top Recruiter - 2024” award!
And A) seems sufficiently knife-edge (and now for a patron who doesn't have the depth of pre-war Russia) as to be fairly unappealing.
And then there's Georgia... Stalin's birthplace
Georgia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) enjoy cordial relations. Georgia is not currently a member of NATO, but has been promised by NATO to be admitted in the future.
Georgia–NATO relations - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
www.militarytimes.com
Shame about that whole "no territorial disputes in play" thing before being able to join NATO.
Meanwhile, not everyone seems to be showing up to the party - or leaving early.
Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine's forces at a crucial time in its war with Russia
Some take medical leave and never return, haunted by the traumas of war and demoralized by bleak prospects for victory.apnews.com
Quick reality check. Approximately 2.7 million Americans saw service in Vietnam; 58,000 died; as of 1974 504,000 were deserters - 10 times the number that deserted from WW2 where more than 16 million Americans served.
$7,100 million - $725 million still leaves $6,375 million to deliver in 50 days. There will be a lot of drawdown left unless a division or two of Abrams and Bradleys are sent (on what ships?). How about a few hundred Tomahawks and a a couple of dozen Patriot batteries with multiple reloads. That might add up to $6,375 million.US will send Ukraine $725M in counter-drone tech, anti-personnel mines
President Biden has pledged to spend all of the military assistance funds Congress approved earlier this year for Ukraine before his administration ends.
President Joe Biden has pledged to spend all of the military assistance funds Congress approved earlier this year for Ukraine before the end of his administration on Jan. 20, which before Monday's news included about $7.1 billion in weapons that would be drawn from the Pentagon’s stockpiles.
open.substack.com
Do most Russians outside the front lines see those issues, aside from the hyperinflation?
The Brits kicked the snot out of the Communists, handed it to the French. Gaip asked the US to help them gain independence, US said no, USSR stepped up and said yes. China helped as well. The French did a crap job and convinced the US to save their asses. The rest is history.
