Who enforces the war crime punishments? If Russia wins this war, will they even get punished?
I agree it is touchy.
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Oliver Stone says he watched that movie with Putin, probably took notes on the George C Scott character.
And since Russia has nukes you can bet whatever punishment they get will be light.
I know everyone makes the same points over and over but why not call Russia's bluff now and save Ukrainian lives and cities. If you believe NATO would actually stand up to an attack by Russia, you have to realize that they would be making the exact same calculation then that they could be now. And it doesn't make a difference that Ukraine is not in NATO-that is just an excuse to not act against the worst regime since Stalin and Hitler.
I have lost track of some of this. Is Dnipro captured and that was HIMARS strikes, or was Dnipro still in Ukraine’s hands and shelled by Russians?
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They have stalled out. I have said repeatedly that I am not an expert, but on the ground they've stalled out, and that's why we are seeing the big missile attacks. They are uncoordinated, and the Russians are using the wrong tool for the job, so to speak. Instead of precision attacks against military or critical infrastructure targets, they are just hammering away at civilian targets with large, large unguided munitions. Or, pounding away with artillery with the hope that they hit something important.
Ukraine already has some good pilots. Training pilots here would take time, and the question is train them to fly what? Supposedly we are in the preliminary stages of thinking about maybe giving them F-16s and F-15s. Hopefully some A-10s. But that is so far down the road. The #1 goal should be to get whatever Soviet jets into Ukrainian hands that we can. To repeat myself from my last post, I have said this before. I think the Poles and Czechs screwed up a bit by so vocally calling for transferring jets early on in the conflict. There was a pathway if they'd just gone silent and worked to coordinate a way to get them equipped and across the border.
FYI: When you post both "good" and "bad" developments in the same post, no one wants to "like" them.
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When he claims he has a World Class military.
Yep. It’s the same story but in different speed as how they lost the North front, where by the way they put half of their force. They thought they could waltz into Kyiv in three days and then got FUBAR’d due to logistics. No fuel or food or communications or radar or ammo 40 miles in a very hostile land.
Looks like another Putin lackey.Trouble in paradise. Wonder if her ‘briefing’ will include threats or bribery?
“The Biden administration is even getting involved — another sign of growing worries that Spartz’s comments may damage cohesion among the Western coalition in defense of Kyiv. A Foreign Affairs Committee aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. intelligence community is planning to brief Spartz about her claims in a classified setting Friday morning.”
Republicans wince as their Ukrainian-born colleague thrashes Zelenskyy
Victoria Spartz took the GOP mantle on aiding Kyiv back in the spring. Now, her fellow lawmakers worry she's undermining the effort.
This says it all: “GOP national-security hawks also worry that the MAGA wing of their party, where there’s already resistance to supporting Ukraine, will point to Spartz’s comments as justification”
What’s false about it?
Going back and reading some of the Obama era diplomacy on this and a phrase stood out to me.
How many missiles did we lob into Havana and how many Cuban kids did we murder? 🙄
