Paphitis wrote:Robin Hood wrote:
Surely ...... NATO and Russia ARE at war with one another? Ukraine is just the cannon fodder chosen to die for the US and NATO! That is why NATO countries, well some of them, keep sending them all these weapons. What baffles me is that IF Ukraine is winning this war as some would have us believe and destroying Russian forces in the tens of thousands ........ why do they constantly need more weapons.
Nope! You will know when NATO is at war with Russia. There won't be a Russia to talk bout. It would be turned to glass. NATO is just watching and bemused at Russia's stupidity. And stupidity must never go unpunished.
And Ukraine is defending its territorial integrity. Russia attacked Ukraine by sending its cannon fodder to die in Ukraine and that is what they are doing. Fertilising the Ukrainian lands with Russian fertiliser.
I went for the interview in Germany for the job in Iran, the day Saddam marched into Kuwait ...... that was 2nd Aug 1990.
I was sitting in the lounge of our Bandar Mashar residence about mid-Jan 1991...... when at about 9pm, all the windows rattled, the house shook and the sky was lit with flashes. Then the distant rumble of explosions across the salt flats that divided us from Iraq. We stood on the terrace and watched ..... and worked out that the payback had started. The response to Saddams invasion of Iraq !
Some days later the sky was black all through the day when Saddam set fire to the oil wells. It was like that for weeks until the Hungarians used modified tanks to snuff them out.
So it took NATO nearly 5 months to get themselves organised and that was done without much military response from Iraq ..... who were digging in!
So how long would it take for NATO to up the ante and move troops into Ukraine ...... against a well prepared Russia? How long have they been arguing about supplying weapons to Ukraine .... let alone fighting for them. They would need months of meetings before even coming to a decision. Russia is a single force with a practised leadership who can make decisions in a matter of hours ...... as we have already seen them do!
So I doubt NATO would be very keen on confronting the Russians ...... would chose the status-quo and let Ukrainians go on dying for the US's geo-political and territorial ambitions.