Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "VisualPolitik EN"
channel.
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
Re-surging? In other words, rising steadily and rapidly in popularity?
Well, let's un-pack this a bit and see if we can figure it out, shall we? If the "far" right, or the "far" left or the "far" anything is re-surging in Germany, or anywhere else for that matter, it's a pretty fair assumption that the "center"; however the hell that's defined these days, is failing or else they wouldn't be losing popularity.
If you take a quick glance around the western world, and even parts of the eastern world as well, you'll see that this is a trend that's growing and if there's a truly unfortunate thing about it, it's that the "center" consistently and reliably reacts to this in exactly the wrong way by doubling and tripling down on the very things that are pissing people off and causing them to lose support.
There's an old saying - "Take care of the reasonable and you'll never have to worry about the radical." Define reasonable and radical in each instance, to your own liking but the general premise holds.
1
-
1
-
1
-
It's been clear to me since shortly after the war started that Russia would win because the "West" was and still is, wracked with indecision, disunity, doubt and fear. Putin knew this before he even started. He knew the west didn't have the resolve to stand by Ukraine and we proved him right.
And I love how this whole mess is now all of a sudden, very conveniently all Trump's fault when for three entire goddam years, the west dragged its feet, hummed and hawed and fretted about every pathetic little day-late-and-dollar-short half measure they bothered to send the Ukrainians.
This f**king war would never have even started if NATO had shown some unity, some teeth, some spine and some goddam balls but even failing that, if they'd shown anything like a will to fight or even stand together, it would've been over in mere weeks. Yes, Trump is a putz, but they ALL knew this and they ALL knew he had a good chance of returning and had ample opportunity to settle the matter the right way before he could come along and f**k it up the wrong way.
They FAILED!! The Biden administration failed, NATO failed, Europe failed, everyone f**king failed!! So don't cry now. You all had your chance.
1
-
1
-
1
-
@dougcoombes8497 Everything you said about Russian capacity; especially in the last six months is true. Unfortunately, none of it matters.
You're making the same mistake everyone else is making. You're thinking like a westerner and rationalizing things in the same way. You CAN'T do that! You have to see this thing as Putin sees it.
Putin will send wave after wave after wave of fresh bodies into the furnace with nothing more than uniforms if he has to, and he'll keep doing it as long as he can get away with it. He also has something like 6000 old tank hulls scattered about... and as I said; rusted out, 60 year old pieces of junk, but they can still make the Ukrainians use up munitions and that's all they need to do.
Yes, I'm being overly pessimistic and it's deliberate but it's to counter the endless drone of voices proclaiming Russia dead in the water when they're nothing of the kind.
Putin has backed himself into a corner. He's long since passed the point of no return. He CAN'T quit now, even if he wanted to. He also can't prevail against a NATO backed Ukraine so his only hope is to keep up this endless grind, grind, grind until he wears down western resolve and that's exactly what he's going to do.
I pray daily that I'm wrong but a lifetime in uniform has taught me that as long as your enemy draws breath, he can, and WILL, draw your blood. Some enemies you can force to sue for peace. Others are in way too deep and have to be destroyed. Putin's Russia is the latter.
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
I really believe that if I hear the phrase "escalate the war" one more f*cking time, I'm either going to scream or hunt down the person who said it and wring their goddam neck!
This is nothing but the worst form of wanton, craven cowardice. You know who has not an ounce of fear about escalation? Putin, that's who, and we are the reason why. We have shown him exactly zilch to be afraid of.
There have been what, 200, 300 thousand casualties so far and something close to a trillion dollars in damages to say nothing of the millions of lives turned upside down and the enormous cost and strain put on already stretched western governments and all because we in the west utterly failed to so much as even lift a finger to prevent this war.
Putin was marshalling troops and equipment and conducting training at least 6 months prior to this thing, right out in the open for all to see, not the least bit concerned about who saw it all or knew about it and what did we do? Sat on our fat asses with dumb looks on our faces!
If we had matched him troop for troop and tank for tank, right on Ukrainian soil, started stationing naval task forces in the Black and Baltic Seas and repositioning strategic air assets to Europe and Turkey as well as ballistic missile submarines to the Med and the Arctic and let it be known we'd have exactly zero hesitation to use any or all of them and if Putin didn't like it, he could damned well do something about it.... if we had done even half of that PLUS the sanctions... this war does NOT happen!
But we did NONE of that and to make matters worse, we've dumped the whole responsibility onto Ukraine's lap while giving them penny packets of equipment... just barely enough for them to not lose and even then, only after months of begging and pleading.
For the love of almighty God; start pouring firepower and if necessary, personnel into that theater of war and END this f*cking thing NOW!!
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1