Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "How can Europe defend itself without the US? | LBC Analysis" video.

  1. Russia has conducted itself in a very constrained manner in Ukraine; hence their insistence on referring to a Special Military Operation. They have chosen not to wage a total war. They can do this because they are fighting a much smaller force: lesser manpower and fewer resources. Were they to be faced by the whole of Europe, then all out war would need to be prosecuted. In that situation, the whole of Europe would be very swiftly decimated. From the outset of this operation, the governments, the media and the bovine public, have underestimated the fighting capabilities of Russia. To blithely trundle along towards a total war between the combined nations of Europe and Russia is extremely irresponsible. Repeatedly we are portraying Russia as having designs on the takeover of Europe when there is not one shred of evidence of such plans. Why do we not talk of ways of returning to the situation whereby Europe presented no encroaching threat to Russia with the siting of bases and missiles ever closer to its border? It is either that or a huge conflagration which would leave Russia and America gravely damaged but ready to rebuild - and a Europe totally destroyed.
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