re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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An army with one finger ...

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Any army and nation that has earned a one fingered salute.

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Why don’t you read this out loud to yourself very slowly?

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Highthoughts

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Did your post sound better when your fingers were hitting the keys?

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Can you not understand how a country being entwined by a NATO military python would feel threatened?

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then maybe Russia needs to look inward and ask themselves why multiple of their former soviet satellites/republics so willingly push for inclusion into NATO and the EU while countries in our sphere of influence arent clamoring to join Chinas or Russias

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Oh, for sure. It's a murder-suicide button. That is what mutually assured destruction is.

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It's a deterrence strategy which goes out the window if one party decides to use that deterrent offensively on a third-party, as the strategy dictates an equilibrium on the use between two parties. Unfortunately, none of the arguments you've laid out have shown that Russia is an actor interested in de-escalation, since you apparently think that it is okay for Russia to dictate terms to organizations of which it is not a member. All the responsibility for de-escalation isn't Russia looking at their security interests and realizing they are exceedingly stupid and outdated, but rather the West capitulating at every turn, over and over, to redress both post-hoc and ad hoc Russian claims.

In what is most ironic, Russia's behavior the last twenty years completely justifies the maximalist approach suggested by Wolfowitz.

Home, a great visit with the grandkids, they grow up too quickly. Got to tour the US Armor Museum at Ft. Benning. That was an awesome experience and I would highly recommend it to anyone remotely interested in Armor, be it US, German, British, or others.

I haven't paid much attention to the war, only what I've picked up from the thread. I have to say, I've been somewhat surprised we haven't seen more aggressiveness from the Ukrainian army. Every day they wait gives Russia another day to prepare. Ukraine certainly had all of the momentum on the battlefield as summer ended. But now? Maybe they are more stressed than was thought? Or maybe the weather has just forced a halt to operations and the war is in a stalemate until the ground freezes enough to support armor. They have been supposedly building combat power in the Zap area, what's it doing?

Russia appears to be totally punched out other than the ability to send in missile strikes and drone swarms. Russia hasn't made any significant gains in months. The wave of mobilized troops that are joining the front are going to face a brutal experience in the coming months. How they handle it could set the stage for the next phase of the war.

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One nation cannot dictate the dealings of another nation.

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Tell it to Serbia. Tell it to Iraq. Tell it to Afghanistan. Tell it to Panama. Tell it to Grenada. Tell it to Cuba.

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I've rarely ever seen revisionist history kick in so quickly and so thoroughly.

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For whatever reason this post made me pause and think. I decided we could call early game revisionist history propaganda and be mostly accurate.

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It's a deterrence strategy which goes out the window if one party decides to use that deterrent offensively on a third-party, as the strategy dictates an equilibrium on the use between two parties.

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You are far brighter than that. Russia has thousands of nukes. One or two deployments has no impact whatsoever on capacity.

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Well political has finally made this unreadable

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Indeed.

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Again, the US is the lone superpower.

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Defined as??
Because the thing you and multiple folks here ignore is that by nuke measures, there are TWO superpowers; Not one !