Many of the weapons being sent to Ukraine will end up on the Black Market. The consequences of this will be painful for the EU states and other places.
I find it hard to know if the decision makers in The West are very clever or just plain stupid. The Russians are unlikely to stop until their goals are met (as spelled out in Putin’s Speech at the start of the intervention). Until then Minsk 2 can never be implemented.
Agreed. I quote most of that speech in Putin's Peace, Petrodollar Pain, if others haven't read it. I thought it was worth putting the whole thing at the end because it makes sense of things we're only now hearing about. Thanks for the comment.
More stupid than clever, imho. Confronted by serious challenges to “the rules-based international order” of US global domination, America’s leaders and its European vassals seem to be internalizing their own propaganda. They appear unable to critically analyze the results of their machinations. I hope I'm wrong, but forward is apparently the only direction they know. They’re heading us off a cliff, but they just keep pushing harder and faster towards it.
Many of the weapons being sent to Ukraine will end up on the Black Market. The consequences of this will be painful for the EU states and other places.
I find it hard to know if the decision makers in The West are very clever or just plain stupid. The Russians are unlikely to stop until their goals are met (as spelled out in Putin’s Speech at the start of the intervention). Until then Minsk 2 can never be implemented.
Agreed. I quote most of that speech in Putin's Peace, Petrodollar Pain, if others haven't read it. I thought it was worth putting the whole thing at the end because it makes sense of things we're only now hearing about. Thanks for the comment.
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/putin-peace-petrodollar-pain
More stupid than clever, imho. Confronted by serious challenges to “the rules-based international order” of US global domination, America’s leaders and its European vassals seem to be internalizing their own propaganda. They appear unable to critically analyze the results of their machinations. I hope I'm wrong, but forward is apparently the only direction they know. They’re heading us off a cliff, but they just keep pushing harder and faster towards it.