No, we aren’t. First of all, Medvedev is entirely irrelevant. The only opinion that has ever mattered since Putin seized power is Putin. The objections raised by Russia and Syria are just smoke and mirrors. Russia told Syria to gas the civilians, already having blessed the US air strikes. Cheeto gets a ratings bump, Russia will get Crimea, and Syria will get continued Russian backing and total defeat of the rebels. It’s all been agreed to, nothing to see here.
Can I get a cite for that?
Very early on I thought that Russia had encouraged Assad to order the gas strike in order to test the Trump administration and see how it would react. They did so because they really did not know what Trump’s reaction would be or even what would compel Trump into reacting. I think Putin might have been willing to escalate to see where Trump’s “red line” would be, then walk it backwards by negotiating a reduction of sanctions against Russia.
But I’m not convinced that this was all, “agreed to”; Too CT for me.
Future events are my cite. Crimea will be annexed, sanctions will be dropped.
Since Crimea is already annexed, I assume you mean the U.S. will recognize the annexation? Against the opinion of all other Western countries? No, that’s not going to happen. Certainly not explicitly.
Those are not a future events. Got a cite for either of them?
It will come out eventually when the annals of the criminal enterprise that this administration is are written.
You have a very creative imagination, I’ll give you that.
“Future events like these will affect us…in the future.”
(Hey, it worked for Criswell…) ![]()
We stand on the brink of a precipice, but under Trump we are certain to take a great stride forward.
So it seems slightly less likely we’re going to start WWIII this weekend.
However the issue of course is not NK attacking but the US doing a pre-emptive strike as a reaction to a new nuclear test. Also China has made clear that if NK gets attacked they are on their own, and I’m sure that has caused lil Kim some serious rethinking of his strategy. Trump’s irrationality (the madman theory) is actually a benefit here since Kim must know Trump wouldn’t stop to consider the broader implications (eg retaliatory strikes on Tokyo and Seoul and the potentially complete collapse of the NK regime causing a massive refugee crisis, and then China invading NK to stop a unified Korea stretching all the way to the Yalu river).
So anyway looks like NK won’t start WWIII, now we just have Taiwan, the South China Sea, Syria, the baltics, Israel and Iran to worry about.