Only a Tactical Nuke
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Maybe I'm an alarmist, maybe I'm a pessimist -- it don't matter. I'm an old cantankerous fool and won't be around much longer anyway. But I do care about my grandchildren. I worry and pray every day for their safety and the world they are inheriting.
And for a vintage perspective, the Eve of Destruction with some 'Nam clips.
I am no longer a youngling myself, I miss less uncertain times...
Nice pair of images Laird!
Thanks.
Shiny gif
Thanks. I found a site that converts MP4 to gif for free.
I wonder how close the doomsday clock is to midnight. On the other hand........ I'm not sure I'd like to know
We can see the result.
The Ukraine war? Well, it's just a fund raiser for the military-industrial complex and the Washington elite at this point. Ukraine can't win. Congress needs to de-fund it immediately. We have other problems to deal with . And the American public grows weary of being the cash cow for Zelensky's war. They lost, time to make peace. Is it the equivalent of the Third Reich taking Poland? Maybe, but I doubt it.
Tossing a nuke. That's kinda why I brought this up, since the subject was loosely tossed around after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the early days when it was thought that somehow the Ukrainians might drive the Russians back to the Volga River. And thereby, the Russians would be threatened enough to use a "tactical battlefield" nuke. Uh huh. No, that was never a realistic possibility with either Russia or Belarus (who also threatened to use nukes). You see, this war was not about saving the so-called democracy of Ukraine. No, it was all about making the military-industrial complex and the DC establishment rich. So what if a 100,000 Ukies or so get killed in the process. No worries, it's the Benjamin's, baby.
True enough, America is the only country to ever have used nukes, but in this case I gotta disagree. Not us, not this time. The Israelis do not admit it, but it's no secret that they have nukes. This is, or could be, a fight to the end for them. So far only Yemen has declared war, other than Hamas, but if Iran or other Arab countries join in -- and Israel is pushed to the edge of annihilation -- Nettanyahu will push the button. No doubt.
The big question, as you point out, is whether Putin wants to take eastern Europe to rebuild that part of the Soviet Union. That's more serious. I don't know what he intends to do, and neither does anyone else except Vladmir himself. My personal feeling is he doesn't intend to do that, not until WWIII breaks out. Then all bets are off.
The "counter-offensive" that was launched by Ukraine, with training and equipment provided by NATO, that was supposed to punch through the Russian's lines and sever the landbridge between Russia and Ukraine went exactly nowhere. They NEVER even made it as far as the Russian's First line of defense. (Of which they have three heavily fortified, and dug in lines, as reported by the NY Times way back at the start of the invasion. They even had aerial photos of the trench networks that Russia had dug.) Every bit of the equipment, the APC's/tanks/vehicles and troops that took part in it got destroyed on the first day. Just a thought, trying to advance across open fields, during the day, when you have a total lack of anything resembling air cover, means you get stomped. And that is exactly what happed. Russian artillery, drones and the minefields stopped them cold.
Mind you, all of this crap could have been avoided because it was the US and NATO that was pushing this "war" from the get go. It has been Russia's policy, and the USSR's policy, from the very beginning of the Warsaw Pact that they would not allow a NATO country on their border. Just like we wouldn't allow Mexico to become part of the Warsaw Pact. Like we lost our minds over Cuba becoming part of the Warsaw Pact, and long range missiles being put into the country. Putin repeatedly told the West he would NOT tolerate Ukraine becoming part of NATO and we still pushed for them to join. This "war" despite all the bluster, all the BS spewed about it, was about $$, as Cormell pointed out.