the royal united services institute publishes yet another stupid deluded article > he might be able to bargain the kursk salient in return for control of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant kek pardon me? this was written yesterday. i'm pretty sure things are pretty much over in kursk for the ukrainians > but president joe bidens hesitancy in allowing storm shadow missiles to be used against targets inside russia is indicative of a general trend. as the head of a global superpower, biden has always had one eye on ensuring that the war does not get out of hand and become nuclear really? sounds sensible. i think the rusi actually wanted nuclear war > the most visible sign of a failure of collective determination to defeat russia was the decision not to seize russian financial assets frozen in western banks, but instead to use them as collateral to raise a much smaller loan. yes, there would have been a theoretical risk of undermining faith in the western-dominated financial system oh is that all? kek lets destroy the western financial system over a border dispute. these people are mad > the irony is that putin would claim victory in spite of his campaign having been a costly disaster this is contradictory and doesn't even make sense. if you win a war then your campaign isn't a disaster its a victory > it also caused europe to shirk the difficult decisions that helping win the war entailed: the big increases in defence expenditure, the 24-hour working in ammunition factories, the hikes in food and energy costs and the political risks such as seizing frozen assets is that all? looks like nobody wanted to launch a "total war". "do you want total war?!!! "eh no, actually thank you very much". > failing that, the west will have years to repent the betrayal of the courageous ukrainians, whose only crime was their wish to join the western democratic order "western democratic order". and what is that?  the eu? nato? not democratic institutions
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