Unless of course winding up Russia - and potentially getting them to commit resources to hold Georgia that they could have sent to Ukraine - is the point. And if Russia don’t bite at the bait, well…that might suggest Georgia should consider it seriously.
Thank you for the correction. The words look similar with a quick glance.
The video for the interview should be after that one on the crash.
This is what is happening at our house.
Russia just announced that America providing ATACMS missiles to Ukraine would be crossing a “red line.” I want America to charge across that red line like Usain Bolt breaking the finish tape in a 100-meter Olympic sprint.
We don’t have to provide them – they might just have accidentally fallen off a truck that happened to be in western Ukraine.
And then be lax about retrieving them. Call it the ATACMS desert.
“We don’t want Ukrainian to have systems to protect civilian buildings and infrastructure. Because we want to destroy their cities as punishment for wrecking our invasion plans”
Tough Shit Putin.
This is the first sign that China might not be totally comfortable with what is happening in Ukraine. In diplomatic speak “questions and concerns” is quite dramatic language.
What Xi tells Putin might have a considerable influence on what Russia does next.
Russia reportedly recruiting mercenaries from prison with promises of full pardons after 6 months. However, “Those who arrive [at the front line] and say on Day 1 it’s not for them get shot.” Yes, that was actually part of the pitch. Shockingly, so far very few takers.
I doubt that Xi really cares too much, but he’s probably happy to use any particular leverage that he can to try and extort Russia of anything they have to offer.
Putin’s primary agenda, there, is to use the alternative Indian market as leverage to get Xi to bargain with some amount of fairness.
I expect Xi to offer to pay a higher price, on condition of being able to start moving Chinese developers into Eastern Russia, building their own infrastructure to extract resources. Putin will need to go with India - but he won’t get much of a bailout from it.
Well, to be fair, that acronym does kind of sound like “Attack-'Ems”. Perhaps we should re-brand them DFNDMS?
He might care whether his supposed powerful ally is actually powerful. Finding out that they’re not might reduce what they’re worth to him.
China likes to expand their borders, too. That might well not be a great deal for Russia – especially for a Russia that’s been proven weak.
I doubt that Xi was ever expecting Russia to come join with its army to work alongside China in the capture Taiwan. The power of Russia is physical land mass and all the resources underneath it.
While it’s possible that Russian geology has been stripped clean, I don’t think that’s the case and it’s possible that China has used various means of survey to figure out what all’s in there.
Temptations shift with circumstances…
Thanks, figured it must be something like that.
Plus, having Russia tie up a lot of US resources that the US thought it needed in case Russia invaded Europe.
Now that we know for a fact Russia isn’t as dangerous as we’d assumed, that can free up at least some resources for other areas of the world…
Or what? You’re going to launch another hypersonic missile at your own city?
I (mostly-jokingly) wonder if Putin will try to take the replacement cost out of their pay.
So what did they leave town in?