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‼️ Reality Check by rottennaija(m): 10:51pm On May 04
‼️ Reality Check

Many people continue to believe Russia would be, if not at risk of major setbacks, at least severely intimidated by the prospect of France and Britain directly intervening in Ukraine.

It's an absurd fantasy.

France and the UK could not equip and sustain even two divisions for more than just a few weeks, and would then be effectively demilitarized for many years to come.

As for the reflexive assertion of many that the US cavalry would then ride over the ridge to save the day — white hats gleaming in the sun and guns a'blazing ... well, I cannot add to what I first wrote in July 2022:

The US Could Not Win and Will Not Fight A War Against Russia

Re: ‼️ Reality Check by rottennaija(m): 10:54pm On May 04
💥🧵The United States Could Not Win and Will Not Fight a War Against Russia

A full year has now passed since I published the article linked below.

I have linked to it often over the past year, undoubtedly to the annoyance of many of my longer-term followers, from whom I beg forbearance yet again.

But I've also, for better or worse, been averaging over 1500 new followers per week for many weeks, and I desire that they also consider what I wrote about this war back in early July 2022.

I just finished carefully re-reading it myself. I would not change a thing. Indeed, I am struck by how much it is more apropos now than it was a year ago.

I cite and link to US Army Col. (Ret) Alex Vershinin's all-important analysis regarding The Return of Industrial Warfare, which had appeared in RUSI a couple weeks prior to my substack article.

I cannot recommend highly enough Col. Vershinin's short but powerful essay. IT IS A MUST READ!

Everything he foresaw has now been confirmed by events.

And, as I have frequently framed it over the past year:

The Masters of Empire now face a no-win scenario. They must abandon their failed Ukraine gambit — and ultimately yield to maximalist Russian demands regarding the roll-back of NATO to its pre-1997 borders — or else yield themselves to the mad impulse of a futile attempt to subjugate Russia by force of arms.

Either way, the decline of the empire will be radically accelerated; NATO will almost immediately cease to function as a credible military/political alliance; the EU will dissolve as a monetary/political "union"; the demise of the global dollar system will rapidly gain momentum.

Many, if not most, find risible the assertion that these things could possibly come to pass in anything like the near- or medium-term (2 - 5 years).

With great trepidation, I increasingly expect they will be proven mistaken.

The United States Could Not Win and Will Not Fight a War Against Russia

Re: ‼️ Reality Check by JASONjnr(m): 10:58pm On May 04
I'm pro-Russia any day, anytime......


Sanctions and cutting off allies made them even stronger......


Russia is a supreme country..... How they allowed US, UK and France to cripple them is beyond my understanding but it's Russia all the way!!

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Re: ‼️ Reality Check by rottennaija(m): 6:23pm On May 06
BREAKING:

🇺🇸 United States Senate issues warning to the International Court of Justice that if they issue an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and other Israeli war criminals, the US will move to sanction and destroy the court.

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