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US and Britain promised a lot and delivered practically nothing. This one is on them. No one even asked them to fight, but they did promise to defend Ukraine i

US and Britain promised a lot and delivered practically nothing. This one is on them. No one even asked them to fight, but they did promise to defend Ukraine in exchange for nukes. So there was zero reason not to hit russia with crippling sanctions a month ago. But hey, promises are made only to be broken. So much for the Budapest Memorandum.

dogma1138 5y ago
There is a major opposition to crippling sanctions from some of the European powers primarily Germany and France. The US cannot risk implementing sanctions that will not be followed by its partners as at that point it would have to sanction European entities too or back down either way it loses. Europe opposes sanctions that broadly target the Russian economy especially its energy and financial sectors. Germany and the rest of Europe is still going to be buying a fuck ton of Russian gas and limiting Russian banks and financial institutions isn’t going to pass Germany as its banks have been issuing a lot of loans to Russian institutions and they still want to get paid. With Russia’s Escalate to Deescalate doctrine specifically around nuclear weapons any armed conflict is impossible. And since Europe pretty much has its hand in Putin’s trousers sanctions would also be minimal in scope. In fact I would bet on that no new sanctions would be put forward unless Russia goes outside of the “contested regions”. The West has pretty much accepted that the “breakaway” regions are now “Western Russian” and Ukraine is going to be completely screwed over by its so call partners just like Georgia.
mlindner 5y ago
What are you saying? We flooded Ukraine with weapons. We did the maximum extent possible without actually causing world war 3.
- dogma1138 5y ago
  We didn’t, the US has declined transfer of many weapon systems including Patriot and other air defense systems to Ukraine. The US has supplied them primarily with small arms and man portable anti tank weapons. The Ukrainian armed forces aren’t rolling in M1 under the cover of Apache gunships and F-35’s… Even if they had the money for it no one would sell them any weapon systems you can’t pretty much buy on Gunbroker.

dogma1138 5y ago

There is a major opposition to crippling sanctions from some of the European powers primarily Germany and France. The US cannot risk implementing sanctions that will not be followed by its partners as at that point it would have to sanction European entities too or back down either way it loses. Europe opposes sanctions that broadly target the Russian economy especially its energy and financial sectors. Germany and the rest of Europe is still going to be buying a fuck ton of Russian gas and limiting Russian banks and financial institutions isn’t going to pass Germany as its banks have been issuing a lot of loans to Russian institutions and they still want to get paid. With Russia’s Escalate to Deescalate doctrine specifically around nuclear weapons any armed conflict is impossible. And since Europe pretty much has its hand in Putin’s trousers sanctions would also be minimal in scope. In fact I would bet on that no new sanctions would be put forward unless Russia goes outside of the “contested regions”. The West has pretty much accepted that the “breakaway” regions are now “Western Russian” and Ukraine is going to be completely screwed over by its so call partners just like Georgia.

mlindner 5y ago

What are you saying? We flooded Ukraine with weapons. We did the maximum extent possible without actually causing world war 3.

dogma1138 5y ago
We didn’t, the US has declined transfer of many weapon systems including Patriot and other air defense systems to Ukraine. The US has supplied them primarily with small arms and man portable anti tank weapons. The Ukrainian armed forces aren’t rolling in M1 under the cover of Apache gunships and F-35’s… Even if they had the money for it no one would sell them any weapon systems you can’t pretty much buy on Gunbroker.