WW3 Please SAY NO!

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Well hopefully he studied WWII as well. Look at Stalingrad. Germans had the better army, but in time the numbers win out. The supply lines will eventually be cut off. Putin who already isn't playing fair, will continue to up that. And he'll gladly give up 5 of his for 1 of theirs.

It isn't just a war scenario - military vs opposition. The sanctions are absolutely devastating to Russia's economy, and eventually, to its ability and will to continue this. Time is on the side of the Ukranians.

A better combat analogy I think is our own Civil War. Grant keeping Lee at bay, while Sherman was wrecking the South's economy, ability and will to fight.

Sanctions are doing to Putin what Sherman did to the Confederates.

[egri]

Originally Posted by Mark17

A better combat analogy I think is our own Civil War. Grant keeping Lee at bay, while Sherman was wrecking the South's economy, ability and will to fight.

Sanctions are doing to Putin what Sherman did to the Confederates.

Shameless plug for the Navy, which blockaded the southern coast and strangled their trade.

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by egri

Shameless plug for the Navy, which blockaded the southern coast and strangled their trade.

The Shermans appreciate it, though a trip to GA isnt on my radar without a name change

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by Mark17

It isn't just a war scenario - military vs opposition. The sanctions are absolutely devastating to Russia's economy, and eventually, to its ability and will to continue this. Time is on the side of the Ukranians.

A better combat analogy I think is our own Civil War. Grant keeping Lee at bay, while Sherman was wrecking the South's economy, ability and will to fight.

Sanctions are doing to Putin what Sherman did to the Confederates.

Yah, but unfortunately Zelensky's future is looking like General Custer.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Yah, but unfortunately Zelensky's future is looking like General Custer.

If the Russians assassinate him, they "accomplish" 2 things:

1. They immortalize him as a martyr and rallying call
2. They put the assassination of Putin on the table

[egri]

The Ruble-USD exchange rate is currently 128-1. For context, it was 80-1 a week ago, and 35-1 before the invasion of Crimea.

[irv]

Serious question. How do we know what we are being told about anything is actually factual, true and unbiased?

Seen pics that were taken years ago and vids that have been used taken from Sony play station games.
My faith in trusting anything the media says to me is at an all time low so I'm curious where this stands with other members commenting here?
What do you actually know to be true?

[D. Bergin]

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by irv

Serious question. How do we know what we are being told about anything is actually factual, true and unbiased?

When CNN, Fox, CBS, MSNBC, Reuters, Associated Press, the BBC, and reports, speeches, and votes (like regarding war crimes) that come from the UN all say basically the same things, I think you can believe it to be at least 95% accurate.

When Putin says he isn't targeting civilians, I think you can be assured he is lying.

When you see multiple images and videos of Putin ridiculously sitting 20 feet away from everyone else at the lonely end of an elongated table, you can assume he is paranoid to the extreme.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Mark17

When CNN, Fox, CBS, MSNBC, Reuters, Associated Press, the BBC, and reports, speeches, and votes (like regarding war crimes) that come from the UN all say basically the same things, I think you can believe it to be at least 95% accurate.

When Putin says he isn't targeting civilians, I think you can be assured he is lying.

When you see multiple images and videos of Putin ridiculously sitting 20 feet away from everyone else at the lonely end of an elongated table, you can assume he is paranoid to the extreme.

I watched a Fox report last week and they clearly said, "Who the hell knows what is really going on"

Before anyone thinks I am cheering Putin on or advocating for war, death and destruction, think again, but I can't help to be brought back to the WMD stories that all of MSM spewed to us before the Gulf war. How'd that story play out?

I believe our media is corrupt and biased with a penchant for protecting U.S. interests by creating and pushing false narratives in an effort to make them look all divine and the like so I really have a hard time believing much of anything that we are being told about Putin, Russia, Zelenskyy and the Ukraine.
Imo, there is definitely more to this story than what we are being told.