The purpose of CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow this week was to warn Russia not to attack NATO member states, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, amid U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia could try to test NATO.
The purpose of CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow this week was to warn Russia not to attack NATO member states, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, amid U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia could try to test NATO.
Is Russia even capable of a massive mobilization against NATO? They had to use NK soldiers in Ukraine.
That didn’t and won’t stop them from throwing people into the grinder and terrorise the civilians.
Putin has to keep doubling down or he is done for.
They were not capable of taking Ukraine in 3 days, but they still tried unfortunately. More important than what they can do, is what they think they can do. And more than that, is what they might want to/see as benefitial to do, whether it might succeed or not. And by “they” in this case, I really just mean Putin.
Had it not been for US, they might have taken Ukraine.
VDV getting annihilated at Hostomel airport is a direct result of US warning Ukraine that the Tank column was effectively a feint and that they needed to hold that airport at all costs.
Like Bibi and Trump, he’s cooked as soon as he leaves office. Not that we’ll see any direct benefit.
That’s not how Russia fights NATO. It’s done with “asymmetric tactics” – terrorism, basically.