Could Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Been Prevented? NATO’s Outgoing Chief Thinks So.

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Northern blaming NATO. Of course.

Thats what maga creeps do.

 

[RileyHawk]

Because they added the ability to highlight text and search to browsers. It’s less steps for you to confirm it yourself.

But you treat it like some kind of indictment.

It’s not like the origin can even be hidden. I’m not trying to hide the source from you if I don’t go through the rigamarole of creating a url when posting from my phone.

I can’t.

You can readily see where it came from yourself, but you’re unwilling to do so.
Why?

And then to act like it means something.

Weird, given how all this stuff works.

Bullshit.

 

[seminole97]

Bullshit.

How widespread is this ignorance?

 

[RileyHawk]

How widespread is this ignorance?

Your ignorance and those like you is far too widespread.

 

[seminole97]

Your ignorance and those like you is far too widespread.

Lulz.

Sorry you don’t understand how these things work.

 

[RileyHawk]

Lulz.

Sorry you don’t understand how these things work.

LOL - you're a fraud.

 

[Nole Lou]

I think this is a tad bit hindsight is 20/20 because what nobody realized - not NATO, not Ukraine and for sure not even Russia - up until about the day @Nole Lou started this thread was just how much a paper tiger Russia was in reality. After the total and utter failure across the board by the Russian military due to obsolete equipment and horrible training has been exposed by a JV team beating them with hand-me downs from NATO it is easy to think we could have stopped it. But nobody knew back then how pathetic Russia is militarily. Like not even a top 25 military instead of the number 2 one. In other words, FSU football 2024 overrated.

I agree. People were talking about a conflict that would last in the realm of hours or days before Russia had Kiev. The assumption I think was that this would be a financial/sanctions war for the west, and possibly a guerilla support situation. And if you think it's a matter of supporting guerrilla groups (as in Afghanistan), you don't arm them before the invasion, before you know who to arm. There was some thought that elements in Ukraine would just roll over, you don't need them just turning over billions in western arms.

There were so few people predicting serious military resistance that my thread even seemed worth posting as a contrarian thought.

 

[BDE420]

Derp