That means Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Denmark should all have them. Definitely for Ukraine. What a disaster it was giving up their nukes.
Time is the biggest enemy of spending on defence updates. After every major war involving mass killing, there is a false assumption that the world has learned a lesson that will avoid another war. The West visibly relaxed after the fall of the old USSR and started cutting defence spending. We forgot that there are still despots out there ruthless enough not to care who dies. The British forces were cut down far too much but we are awake again thanks to a despot arising in a place nobody could have expected - our own aly, the USA. Previous presidents did misread what would happen by not standing up sufficiently to a bully lamenting the old communist power bases but there is now no excuse for letting that remain. If not stopped now, our children and grandchildren will have a major war on their hands. It would be my generation that let it happen. All the money in the world would be of no value to any rich man or property developer if it can be blown up together with their lives. Putin and Xi must be laughing their heads off at the blithering idiots in the White House and the rest of us trying to catch up. However, it is not yet too late to resolve the issue without the USA.
Stop Trump's profiteering cabal from trying to impose a property deal on Ukraine and we can collectively stop Putin.
Wrong about Crimea. Crimea seceded and requested annexation. The legitimate government of Ukraine had just been overthrown in a nationalist right wing coup, and the Crimean people, most of them ethnically Russian, wanted no part of that.
I believe the Crimean “poll” requesting annexation occurred after the Russians were already there. The “legitimate government of Ukraine” was the result of Russian meddling and a very popular and peaceful opposition to the then leader’s decision to forget about Europe and throw in with Russia sent that leader packing. I believe you can find much better history of the period with just a little judicious searching.
That means Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Denmark should all have them. Definitely for Ukraine. What a disaster it was giving up their nukes.
Time is the biggest enemy of spending on defence updates. After every major war involving mass killing, there is a false assumption that the world has learned a lesson that will avoid another war. The West visibly relaxed after the fall of the old USSR and started cutting defence spending. We forgot that there are still despots out there ruthless enough not to care who dies. The British forces were cut down far too much but we are awake again thanks to a despot arising in a place nobody could have expected - our own aly, the USA. Previous presidents did misread what would happen by not standing up sufficiently to a bully lamenting the old communist power bases but there is now no excuse for letting that remain. If not stopped now, our children and grandchildren will have a major war on their hands. It would be my generation that let it happen. All the money in the world would be of no value to any rich man or property developer if it can be blown up together with their lives. Putin and Xi must be laughing their heads off at the blithering idiots in the White House and the rest of us trying to catch up. However, it is not yet too late to resolve the issue without the USA.
Stop Trump's profiteering cabal from trying to impose a property deal on Ukraine and we can collectively stop Putin.
What do you mean Oama nixed it, he gave Ukraine blankets. Not care about anything else.
What message is that? Encouraging Putin, perhaps…
dread is a terrible thing
Wrong about Crimea. Crimea seceded and requested annexation. The legitimate government of Ukraine had just been overthrown in a nationalist right wing coup, and the Crimean people, most of them ethnically Russian, wanted no part of that.
comedy
I believe the Crimean “poll” requesting annexation occurred after the Russians were already there. The “legitimate government of Ukraine” was the result of Russian meddling and a very popular and peaceful opposition to the then leader’s decision to forget about Europe and throw in with Russia sent that leader packing. I believe you can find much better history of the period with just a little judicious searching.
Isn’t that always the case?