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[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Time is running out for Ukraine. After 18 months of war, it is no longer a question of if the Western alliance will falter, but when.

Aww what's the matter buddy? Are your dreams of Empire slipping away? Where's that stiff upper lip? There are still 12 Challengers left! lol!

Western military analysts and the media built expectations that, this summer, Kyiv would repeat its striking victories of last autumn at Kharkiv and Kherson.

Motherfucker that was you! The lengths these people will go through to avoid responsibility is something else.

Zelensky obviously recognises the coming hinge point in Western support, and his recent actions may indicate a degree of alarm. He has, for example, jailed the allegedly corrupt tycoon and former provincial governor Igor Kolomoisky, a long-term ally and supporter. He sacked defence minister Oleksii Reznikov at the height of the war, again amid corruption allegations.

Reznikov is getting a golden ticket to Britain as the Ukrainian ambassador, so he can avoid getting lynched by the Ukrainians.

If anything like this scenario plays out, a humiliated West will need a robust damage-limitation strategy. This would involve building up Nato forces, which still has not yet been seriously approached on either side of the Atlantic. There is no indication, for example, that Germany is budgeting to reach the minimum Nato defence spend of 2 per cent of GDP, despite promises. The UK continues to make further cuts to its undersized army.

...If the West can’t find the backbone to help Ukraine put a stop to Russia’s seizure of its territory, then it needs to be planning decisive measures for the day after, rather than simply repeating the errors that followed Putin’s Crimean land grab in 2014 and led directly to the 2022 invasion.

Another successful prediction from Khan Haz al-Din:

Let me break it down for you:

🔴 US/Europe never recovered from 2008 crash

🔴 NATO sending all its weapons to Ukraine to be wasted

🔴 Will be cause for huge re-armament

🔴 Military production will be number one driver of economy to bail it out, as in Nazi Germany.

🔴 War

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There is no indication, for example, that Germany is budgeting to reach the minimum Nato defence spend of 2 per cent of GDP, despite promises.

Maybe because their economy is bleeding red ink after they cut the legs out from under their industrial base? Naw, that can't be it!! Or maybe it's the EU's €86 billion shortfall that member states are expected to cover, including a salary increase for EU officials?

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That doesn't matter. If Scholtz doesn't do what he's told they're going to do a lot more to him than make him fall off his bicycle. His replacement will certainly do what they're told