re: #132 No Malarkey!

Important considerations mitigating against NATO intervention into Ukraine, besides the risk of nuclear war, are that first, I doubt Russia has the capacity to sustain a long term military occupation of Ukraine, so this adventure is likely to fail if we just give it time. Second, a lot of Russians are opposing this war and its possible that domestic opposition could become a serious problem for Putin. If NATO intervenes, it could rally Russians around the flag. Third, most of the world is opposing this blatantly illegal imperialist attack; if we widen the conflict to make it NATO v. Russia, suddenly its Russia that looks like the victim of Western imperialists, at least in some places, such as China. I am very confident that NATO forces are not going to enter Ukraine to fight the Russia army.

Those are very good points. And it seems like despite surface appearances, things might not be going so well for the Russian Army.

Hoo, boy….could you just imagine if the Russians were forced to withdraw back to those so-called “People’s Republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk? It’d be a strategic debacle and Putin would end up looking like a reckless adventurer who rolled the dice and squandered it all.