I was sad when Yevgeny Prigozhin (leader of Wagner Group) was killed off, because if his coup was successful we could have seen less bloodshed and a sooner close of the war.
just 3 more days bro!
This seems to be a recurring problem, of strongman leaders who allegedly love their country and people making terrible decisions starting elective wars.
Trump is a fool and a conman and just wanted to blow up brown people, but Netanyahu, for instance, should have known better.
Reportedly it’s a major problem with authoritarian strongmen, that everyone surrounding them blows smoke up their ass for years. They are either afraid of getting murdered for telling the truth, or they think they will get ahead by telling pleasing lies, or there is just an overall culture of corruption.
In any case Putin thought his situation was a lot better than it really was.
Netanyahu wanted (and wants) to stay out of prison, but also (thanks to America and its European allies) Israel has faced a grand total of zero consequences for trying to do regime change in Iran. What should they (Netanyahu obviously couldn’t have done this alone) known better?
Iran now has proof of concept, that closing the Strait of Hormuz serves as a deterrent for war as good as the capacity of nuclear response. In fact, it’s better in that it’s more useful. No nation yet dares to actually use nukes that they have (for instance, Russa hasn’t threatened nuclear escalation as the US and Europe support Ukraine, and Ukraine might still join NATO.) Closing the strait does economic damage, but much less physical damage, so it’s Iran is freer to close the strait more readily than they could be with any nuclear weapon.
So now Iran has shown that power, it is stronger for it on the international stage, and as a result Israel is now weaker. We’re already seeing this as Iran uses the closed strait to pressure the US to, in turn, pressure Israel to stop attacking Syria.
If Netanyahu hadn’t pressured the US to attack Iran, then the IDF could probably continue to war on Syria without Iran closing the strait, and the US would not be under pressure by Iran. Also the people of the US might disapprove of Israel less and the influence of AIPAC money in US elections would likely be less of an issue. There’s also pressure in the US for Congress to stop budgeting for materiel for Israel.
Recently, Israel intended an air strike on a plane full of Iranian negotiators, but the US warned Tehran about it and the plane was diverted, so we’re already seeing signs that the alliance between the US and Israel is under stress.
Am I crazy or is Israel using Epstein-files to blackmail trump to do the war?
He could have, until his very much put-upon subjects started noticing the citizens of their neighbouring country, with its similar history and culture, thriving in a way that’s denied to them. (It’s one thing for Russians to see Poland or Estonia, former imperial dependencies with different languages, alphabets, religious observances and such, become affluent liberal democracies and shrug it off as ineffable cultural difference, but Ukraine’s history is a lot more closely intertwined with Russia’s, and arguments that The Ukrainians Are Not Like Us would ring hollow.)
Meh, he still could have easily ridden that out. This reality is demonstrably the worse narrative for him.
The funny part is that Ukraine, Estonia, and Latvia had their own problems and I would prefer living in Russia pre-2022 than in pre-2022 Ukraine or Latvia. If we forget, of course, about the unpredictability risk of having a madman as a ruler
He had a crazy ass speech shortly before or after the renewed invasion to Ukraine. Some really deep, absurd shit about Russian history.
I will read old Russian novels forever but fucking come on
I will read old Russian novels forever but fucking come on
Why do you hate yourself.
Where are the guys who were saying that the real russian army is on the other side of the urals? Ukrainian drones are hungry for russian sturmoviki, they want blood.
We laugh, but now we see what drone warfare is going to be like moving forward. War has always been horrible, but it somehow also keeps getting worse.
No more swords and axes. Ah well.
PUT AXES ON DRONES
Lol modern problems require modern solutions
Goddamn fucking tractors.
He wanted a legacy just not this one.
Nice drone!
