Mind your business.
Nope. He said that Russia only had 190,000 troops in the beginning and that number was far too small to conquer all of Ukraine, much less all of Europe. He also used history as an example to make the point that the Nazis used 1.5 million troops, somewhere around that number, to conquer Poland, and that does not even count the Russian invasion from the East. Furthermore, he is a professor, you are not, remember that. He uses facts and logic, you don’t.
Russian perspective is legitimate geopolitics just like the Chinese perspective and the Indian perspective, so on. There is no “propaganda” but only national interest. Point out a single instance of propaganda. You are not the decider of whose perspective gets to be told.
You don’t understand geopolitics if you only think Western politics that matter. It shows you are a propagandist, a bias person, partial, and no substance. Do you understand there is more to the world than just NATO and the US? There is another world outside your little echo chamber? That you even put up this post shows you don’t know what geopolitics is, and therefore in the wrong community. This isn’t a US/NATO only community, and they don’t own the subject of geopolitics. It involves all nations and countries.
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Why? I follow the truth. I don’t have the patriotic motivation to deny the truth. Some people are patriotic enough to risk a nuclear war, others are patriotic enough to bomb defenseless people, and sow conflict against non-threats. China and Russia are not threats to national security of Europe or the US, but if you want to them to be, keep treading on the same path.
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Now you are lying.
The US wants peace and stability in the region and support for their Ukrainian and European friends.
The US does not want peace. You know why? Because the US rejects any peace deal with Russia, while Russia repeatedly extended proposals for a peace deal. Ukraine had democracy, peace, and stability before NATO showed up. There is a before and there is an after. Ukraine today is less democratic, less free, and far less stable under the tutelage of NATO. By all metrics, Ukraine has receded on everything. What the US wants is to expand its influence, which was a long term policy set many years ago after the fall of the USSR. What the US wants is a NATO Ukraine, a NATO Russia, or NATO Russian states subservient to US foreign policy, that extends into Eurasia. This is the reason the US does not accept any peace agreements or compromises with Russia. The Russian political class is the stumbling block for US influences beyond Europe. How do I know this? Whistleblowers and articles by American elites and the very little coverage of the evidence at hand. The most important news you will find on page 25 or at the back of the newspaper, as it is a proper analogy to mainstream news media.
There is short term policy and then there is long term policy. For long term policy to work, you need an entrenched establishment with common goals and a common ideology. This is why Donald Trump is not accepted among the establishment. Americans elites were debating soon after the collapse of the USSR on whether NATO should expand near Russia’s borders. Very important people in the US government and the EU knew that expanding NATO to Russia’s borders was insane. Especially expanding NATO to Ukraine, which was meant to be a neutral state to meet security concerns. Part of that security concern was the denuclearization - which is a paradox because a nuclear weapon is the ultimate defensive weapon. The warmongers, the hawks, the neocons won out, and it became settled policy to perpetually expand NATO, which is why it is not a defensive alliance. When the USSR collapsed, its conventional military forces became weak, but the Russians counted on their nuclear arsenal to protect them from NATO expansion as the ultimate defensive weapon. Conventional military forces are used much more offensively while a nuclear strike is rarely used in that way, if you consider Nagasaki, and Hiroshima offensive. Nuclear threat escalates the threat to survival on a much higher scale. Russia is afraid of NATO’s conventional forces because NATO is the expansionist here. Americans adopted the British Empire geo-strategy of encircling Russia.
Your answers to my questions are not serious, and you have no evidence to support your claims. To understand the conflict in Ukraine, it is important to know it is not just a Russian factor; it is also the US factor. Without the US factor, there is no Russian factor. That is to say, without US interference, and involvement in Ukraine, there would be no 2014 coup in Ukraine, and the Russians, for sure, would have not invaded on Feb. 24, 2022. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked, not by a long shot, despite what Western information dispensers say. The following links are evidence…
FUNDAMENTALS OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY CONTRIBUTE TO TENSION - https://bit.ly/4c1DYoT
NYET MEANS NYET: RUSSIA’S NATO ENLARGEMENT REDLINES - https://bit.ly/4c1DYoT
A Geostrategy for Eurasia | Foreign Affairs - https://fam.ag/4b0l6pH
How to Possibly Start a War with Russia: Let Ukraine Join NATO - 19FortyFive https://bit.ly/4aMfrDc
Why did Russia invade Ukraine on 24 February 2022? What does the US want in Ukraine?
You don’t find this on Fox News. This is stuff that mainstream news does not cover.
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Paying attention to the quote I have of your statement
I dont think its unreasonable to assume that the Russian military command genuinely believed the they were a lot stronger than they actually were when this started. Just based on what news I’ve been following, it seems like its very common for Russian officers to lie to their superiors about how strong their units are for the sake of looking good.
If you don’t have the capacity, then you can’t. How do you know they are “trying”? NATO said Russia is a threat to NATO and the US says Russia is a threat to national security. This statement seems to indicate that NATO is crossing their own lies. It is a contradiction, one of many coming out of NATO.
It’s possible to have aspirations beyond what your current capabilities are. Look at Benito Mussolini’s entire military history. Russian state media regularly makes claims that they will reconquer the Baltics and Poland. They even said they would nuke the North Sea to destroy Britain with a tidal wave. Are we supposed to just ignore what they say?
I am going to make a bet you can’t back up your statements. NATO is too stupid to figure out the military strength of Russia and takes their word for it, instead?
I dont think its unreasonable to assume that the Russian military command genuinely believed the they were a lot stronger than they actually were when this started. Just based on what news I’ve been following, it seems like its very common for Russian officers to lie to their superiors about how strong their units are for the sake of looking good.
Russia isn’t part of NATO. Why is NATO contradicting itself with a narrative that Putin is out to conquer Europe, bring back the USSR, and claim here, it is too weak to do so on this front?
What a minute, didn’t NATO say that Russia is trying to conquer all of Europe, and attack NATO countries, yet it doesn’t have the numbers for a significant breakthrough in Ukraine. Something’s fishy going on with this statement… The psychological operations continue.
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