Originally Posted by
NutLoose
I do try to keep it topical on here as I firmly believe it is the most important event in the last 30 years that has the potential to effect all our lives, the lives of those in the poorer countries and destroy our planet.. It also appears the rest of the world, Iran, Turkey, China, North Korea, the Balkan States etc are using it as and excuse to sabre rattle in the background while a lot of the world attention is on Russia.
The world and its security is teetering on an edge, something a year ago was unthinkable.
The Russian bear needs it's teeth pulling so peace can resume and famines in Africa can be averted.
The bear needs the thorn removed from the Kremlin I'd wager. 6th floor windows are effective for that malaise.
This is a pivotal crisis, arguably mores than 9/11 or the rest of the events since 1 Sept 39. The West and the spineless UN set up this calamity, which otherwise would have just been a disaster. An assumption that there is any reasonable negotiated peace that does not result in Russia being removed from their neighbours land is to disregard over a millennium of Russian history that shows recidivist deceit in their agreements, they are worthless, other than as sanitary wipes. The Russian population is still being sold the lie that Ukraine is attacking Russia, in spite of the evidence in front of their own lyin' eyes of the incontrovertible fact that Russian military are not dying in Russia, Ukrainian army is not inside Russia, and that Russia instigated this special goat recipe all of their very own lonesome self. This war is Vlad's, the incompetence is a 1,000 years of corruption, and the Russian public own the system that is bringing on the loss of a critical generation for their long term survival as a country. At least they can always adopt North Koreans, except that the nationalists of pink skin in Moscow and St Pete's are not so fond of Eurasians.
Global stability is in question at present, brought into focus by Vlad's ill considered spring break. Vlad has renewed NATO as an association, expanding the same, shown their own lack of competency and poor performing munitions, and generally acted to mess up the rice bowls of just on 8 billion people.
'xelent effort. What happens now, and what arises from the ashes will determine the next 50 years of our collective futures. It has certainly shown that the defence force structures need to have a rethink about force composition, response time to a crisis, and to collective defence. It also shows that the UN has outlived it's mandate, lacking a spine or the moral fortitude to apply their own rules in Article 27(3), those in the UN need to be put in stocks or have the cone of shame wrapped around their worthless necks.
The USA remains, for better or worse, the nearest thing to a moderating force for global stability. That arises from their remaining industrial base that we have bagged for decades, but which remains capable of remarkable resilient accommodation to shocks. China is in it's own crisis that has been a long time coming and which strongly suggests that the concept of an autocratic leader has some strategic limitations, being as good as one person who cannot be given a reality check does not appear to be a brilliant form of governance, it makes the wet lady with the rusty dagger ascending from the pond look positively progressive. Democracy sucks, but it sure beats the odds of the alternatives.