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How's that win-win relationship working out for Ukraine right now? "The Ukrainian military already is bleeding Russia in the Donbass region (and vice versa). P
by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
How's that win-win relationship working out for Ukraine right now?
"The Ukrainian military already is bleeding Russia in the Donbass
region (and vice versa). Providing more U.S. military equipment and
advice could lead Russia to increase its direct involvement in the conflict and the price it pays for it ... Increasing
military advice and arms supplies to Ukraine is the most feasible of these
options with the largest impact, but any such initiative would have to be
calibrated very carefully to avoid a widely expanded conflict."
- 2019 paper from the RAND Corporation titled Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...
- koonsolo 4y ago> How's that win-win relationship working out for Ukraine right now? Without Western support, there would be no Ukraine right now.
- dzikimarian 4y agoIf not for this relationship, Ukraine would not exist now and war would be happening in Poland.
- koonsolo 4y agoMoldova for sure. Baltics or Poland highly likely, and that would mean a direct confrontation with NATO. The nuclear threats now are peanuts compared to what would happen then.
- dzikimarian 4y agoI've assumed reality where there's no "NATO expansionism" (as GP was complaining about US forging alliances), so Poland and entire post-Soviet block wouldn't be in the NATO at all and would be full-time enjoying "Ruski Mir". Hard to find words to express how shitty that would be.