If Ukraine is able to replace or recover damaged vehicles why is Zelensky still asking for more tanks (in Switzerland right now)? I thought the sanctions were going to trigger massive inflation and unrest in the Russian economy and their desire to support the war would disappear. I thought the Russians were out of ammunition last year and now they’re bombing relentlessly. I though their morale was so low they were going to capitulate when this attack happened, yet their first main line of defensive trenches hasn’t yet been touched. If Ukraine morale is high and Russian morale is low why are Ukrainians surrendering or refusing to fight on the front lines?
Austin told us all that he had high expectations for the counter-offensive two days before the Pentagon leaks revealed there were actually low expectations. Why believe the boy who already cried wolf, especially when his words don’t align with reality? There’s been too much lying. The war is costing too much in terms of tax payer dollars and Ukrainian lives. This Biden administration is stuck is a sunk cost fallacy and needs to stop.
Russia wil NEVER by a Iran or a North Korea, this is why precisely the sanctions failed horribly. With the size of Russia, they have a country that can almost autosustain itself, at least in the most basic of things, and they have infrastructure that was built by the Soviets, so they don’t have a country with great resources but now way to extract them (like Venezuela with oil, for example). Besides this, the US having sanction half of the Global South at this point doesn’t realise that we people from the third world are just going to give a fuck a start trading amongst us. Every step they give it’s easier, if Russia didn’t have an explicit reason to openly trade with Iran or North Korea, now they have. You’re just isolating from the world and the only allies you’ll be left off are a decaying Europe with no production and a decrepit fascist Empire, the US.
Russia and China are already trading extensively with NK and Iran and have been for decades lol
Iran also has a well industrialized economy, not unlike Russia and they will look quite similar once the western machinery that is extracting all those resources starts breaking down without being able to be replaced appropriately.
Yes, you read right. All that machinery comes from decaying Europe and the decrepit US.