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    Default Re: Ukraine conflict episode 2 Putin´s Empire strikes back

    Putin is merely an opportunist taking advantage of very stupid US efforts to weaken Russia.

    The West lacks any leadership half as cunning as Putin nor wise enough to know it.

    Putin can afford to act like a bandit. He is fully aware that the US military is not the threat it once was.

    It has a military focused on the use of small scale special forces operations and air power focused on air to air combat. Their multi mission aircraft do none of their missions well and there are too few troops to take on the tasks or trained to handle a combined arms campaign.

    Russia has be isolated by the US each time they have tried to cooperate with them.

    The rest of the west keep following Washington’s ridiculous short sighed policies and diplomatic leads which brought it to this stage.

    His latest move shows that he has lost any hope of bringing the EU to a more neutral stance, so from here on it is put up or shut up.

    As weak as Europe is and as unreliable an ally as the US has turned out to be he is fairly confident in being able to push things even further. All I can see from the West is more bluster and no substance.


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