'The Blinken/Sullivan duo will be studied for achieving the impossible - that has the most disastrous foreign policy of the US in the last thirty years after the end of the Cold War.'
- Velina Tchakarova (
Source, January 6, 2025)
'Now in Washington, there is no talk about the so-called end state of Russia .. The key issue is the willingness to take risks. Both for the United States and for Europe..''The West seems to still be holding on to a world that no longer exists. It's trying to recreate this world, to conclude some kind of agreement to calm things down. Unfortunately, this is only a signal for the opponents to raise the bar. Deterrence breaks down when appeasement becomes the dominant element of international relations, and it starts working again only in an acute conflict.
We are on a path where the cost of restoring deterrence may be much higher than it would have been had we responded decisively at the outset in 2008 in Georgia. The response was a slap in the face from Putin and the continuation of the Nord Stream 1 project. Then there was Ukraine in 2014, and again the construction of Nord Stream 2.
Each time, the West was obsessively concerned about "escalation management." And Putin played it well, using threats of vertical escalation to the level of nuclear war.
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If the West is preparing for a real war, it must produce on a large scale and have large stockpiles.
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Now in Washington, there is no talk about the so-called end state of Russia .. The key issue is the willingness to take risks. Both for the United States and for Europe. Because of the constant fear, escalation, and the question of whether to give HIMARS, etc., the Russians were given 500 days as a gift, and during this time, they dug trenches, mined territories, and destroyed part of the Ukrainian army that we have been training since 2015.'
- Dr. Andrew Michta, Director and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Strategy Initiative (
Source, January 6, 2025)
Context (Russia, a fascist imperialist regime, must lose) - 'It is normal for Russia to lose wars.''..to push Russia over the edge towards economic collapse..'(Ukraine must win) - Danish PM to allies: Stop talking about ‘red lines’ and let Ukraine strike Russia(Ukraine must win)(Russian withdrawal) - '..Ukraine remains steadfast: fight until Russia withdraws.''..if Russia wins .. we will face more wars, bigger wars..''The Biden policy on Ukraine has been a global disaster.'