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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Don't start running into Sliver's bomb shelter just yet, but it is kind of alarming that Macron is openly saying that European soldiers could be sent to Ukriane because Russian victory cannot be option. He acknowledges that there is no consensus on that issue, but the fact he is openly talking about it is pretty intense.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ys-2024-02-25/
In other news, Sweden has cleared the final hurdle to join NATO. The Hungarian parliament voted in favour. Two hundred years of official neutrality is over. I say "official", because Sweden's values have always been congruent with Western values.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...le-2024-02-26/
Completely unrelated though, I wonder if this means Sweden won't be able to act as a third party broker for countries that do not have relations for political reasons. For example. the Swedish embassy in North Korea was Canada's proxy in the country when required. Now that will be in NATO very quickly, I wonder if they lose that clout not that they are official aligned with the evil West. |
I think there is more of a realization that the west really just messed this up more and more. A lot of the bad news is coming out now and it's getting harder and harder to keep the morale up and see a realistic opportunity for Ukraine to move Russian troops away.
All of a sudden Europe's pledge of 1 million shells by March 2024 is looking like a pathetic joke. They quietly acknowledged they were going to miss the target by 50% but only 30% of that lower amount has been delivered.
Bottom line is that the US and the west is going to have to arm Ukraine to the tits, and with the level of weapons that will make a serious difference.
We are getting to the point where Russia will need to suffer a significant military defeat or it will be Europe that will suffer the defeat. Putin should have been stopped at the start but he will try poking the bear with NATO just for laughs.
There are the talkers, which appears to be the west and Europe and there is the doers like Putin and the guy who filled his request for a million shells quicker than I typed this message, "Rocket Man" from North Korea .
Crazy times indeed