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Ukraine will lose if the west doesn’t intervene

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  It is difficult to tell which side is winning the war with the massive misinformation campaign being waged in the west. Ukraine makes up stuff as it goes along posting often complete distortions so one comes to believe they are fighting a field of dreams conflict, relying on the hope if they say it often enough it will come true. They need to convince the US, EU and others they can hold off the Russians while at the same time pray the west will intervene on their behalf. This duality suggests they know they are losing and are in desperate need of Devine intervention. The fact that people are fleeing Ukraine by the millions adds evidence to this. Yes, they have slowed the Russian advance but at a great cost. Winning a war is about attrition. The side with the most resources generally wins. The Persian gulf wars also showed control of the air is the ultimate advantage While Russia is losing as much Ukraine, it has more to lose. And while less motivated than the Ukrain...

Putin as master manipulator

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  Trump was right; Putin is a genius An evil genius, no doubt, and almost certainly a war criminal. But he is hardly the madman media is making him out to be – even though he is waging what Civil War Union General Sherman might have called “total war” against innocent civilians. Sherman’s theory which he carried out to bring down the South and later to defeat some of the most powerful native American tribes (through his acolyte, Sheridan) was to undermine the ability of the enemy to fight by destroying the base – food supply and those folks back home – that support them. Sheridan’s belief was that if you make it hell for all the people involved, the sooner they will capitulate. Simplistic fools, however, need to paint this conflict as simply one of good and evil, and so award the president of Ukraine sainthood, and by default, Putin is seen as in league with the devil. These are the same people who rally around BLM and Antifa when those groups burn down cities and shoot...