@secretsqrl123 No govt in Europe has prepared their voters for the possibility of people coming back dead. So until they’ve made that existential argument: defeating Russia is important enough to lose lives over (not just spend treasure), there will be no troops in harms way.
@visegrad24 According to the Straits Times, the Gazans were protesting the slow processing of their permits to return home.
https://t.co/dXld94zVVH
Unsure why you want to push this misinformation.
@Mylovanov Russia doesn’t have hundreds of brigades and thousands of tanks.
Secondly, the marshalling of such forces on the border would be obvious, just like in Ukraine.
Thirdly, NATO has air superiority, which would shortly become air supremacy, interdicting Russian resupply.
@jurgen_nauditt And Putin is the reason Ukraine has 5 F-16 pilots? You have your reasoning the same wrong way round. Biden’s doing what he can. Putin is to blame for all of this.
@AnnaFil_Ukraine@MaryKri80076281 They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun…we shall remember them. Heroyam Slava!
@secretsqrl123@jurgen_nauditt Europe doesn’t have a spare 200,000 deployable troops. Or 1000 spare tanks. Otherwise these would already be deployed to NATO’s eastern flanks.
@slampjak@RossKneeDeep Cash flow. Bumper profits might flow next year. Doesn’t mean there’s plenty of cash lying around now for bonuses. And the bonuses next year might be eroded by price increases.
@secretsqrl123 Agree. But last time Gorbachev didn’t have a pathological desire to stay in power. Putin and his cronies might be harder to lever out of power
@secretsqrl123 BRiCS aren’t some monolithic group that hates the US. Pretty sure India doesn’t. And Brazil isn’t a fan of Venezuela - no idea where you get this stuff from.
@MissingAmerica_@cameron19460429 Russia’s entire economy is about 1/20 the size of Europe+USA. It could devote its entire economy to war production, and it would be matched by ~5% of the West’s. Despite having a huge army, it’s made pitiful progress in over 2 years of war. Doubt it’s going to get any better.
@TetyanaUkrainka The Economist pretty much never puts the journalists name on articles. It seems you don’t really know the Economist well. I read that article and came to a completely different conclusion.
@Marston1889 Are there that many volunteer pilots, and serviceable airfields, and AA defence, and logistics support, and even spare aircraft to make ‘a flood’ work?
I support the cause, but I suspect it’s not that simple.
@GlushkoDenys@KonstantinTeam They shall not grow old, as we that remain grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them. Heroyam Slava!