I am not credentialed, I am a Bad Person (I have my own Thoughts); as for "intel", I have none either. I find these given cause-and-effect chains in defense of

I am not credentialed, I am a Bad Person (I have my own Thoughts); as for "intel", I have none either. I find these given cause-and-effect chains in defense of the sanctions and other actions largely to be magical thinking and hysterical (they'd be less so if they were actually backed by the proof-of-work of deploying to protect Ukraine). Like, I don't care about the Ruble in itself. I was told that it would be flattened in two weeks. Well it wasn't, so we failed there. Okay, so next goal post is to pretend Ruble going up and down has helped Ukraine's strategic or operational capabilities or hurt Russia's, materially altered the course of the war. Well that's magical thinking, they were supposed to run out of missiles in two weeks somewhere around March, and it was like day or two ago they made their largest missile strike (which have been more or less continuous). A NATO deployment would alter the outcome of the war, and that single action is not coming.