more jewish ramblings about how the bestest us president ever is going to defeat putler > for those security guarantees to mean something will require the presence of large numbers of troops, ready to fight, in ukraine, and those forces will have to be overwhelmingly european. a small force intended to act as a tripwire will not suffice, but rather something considerably more substantivesay, a polish division, a french-led and a british-led division, and possibly a turkish or some other composite division. in all, not a force of a few thousand observers, but something on the order of 100,000 troops, with components led by europes two nuclear powers. > as for russia, the key will be shaking putins confidence that trump is psychologically subservient to him and politically uninterested in ukraine. the united states may need to lift all restrictions on the use of american weapons in ukraine (as suggested by the national security adviserdesignate, mike waltz), lean on countries like germany to do more by way of providing long-range systems like the taurus missile, and, above all, drastically increase the scope of sanctions. > that last measure is particularly important: sanctions on the russian giant gazprom have had an effect on the russian economy; a truly ferocious set of sanctions on all entities that do business with russian companies would have more such.
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