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Ukraine does not have the manpower to beat Russia back to the prewar borders. NATO boots on the ground could very well lead to WWIII or nuclear war
Ukraina isn’t the one getting incompetent soldiers from North Korea. That’s Putin, because he dare not draft the urban populations of Sv. Petrburg, Moskva, and other large cities. They would revolt and he would die, and he knows it.
It’s broadly the same reason he’s not going to use a nuke: as Ben Hodges, retired CG of US Army Europe, has told us repeatedly, the value of Putin’s nukes is only in how much the idea of having him start using them scares western politicians and oligarchs. He threatens, the US appeases. The moment he were to use one, their value as frighteners would cease, and he’d be trying to escape with his life, if indeed he hadn’t already been shot dead by a member of his military staff.
Ukraina needs more warm bodies for relief shifts, as Hodges has told us more than once, but the ones still fighting though exhausted won’t quit. Ukraina has superior C&C and motivation. Mostly what they need is enough first-class weapons to take the war to Moskva and Sv. Pete.
The Ukrainskie are fighting not just for Ukraina itself but for all of Europe, since Putin’s motivations are now well known to everyone with more than 2 brain cells, and are why Finland and even historically-neutral Sweden have joined NATO, why the Baltic states are arming up, and why there are mutterings about secession even from Kaliningrad. Putin wants to recreate the Russian Empire of bygone times, and subsume all Europe. That’s why he’s p*ssing himself with happiness about TrumpCo being so willing to betray Ukraina now.
Chamberlain was smarter and braver than he was ever given credit for. His actual motive was to give Britain a chance to arm up.
The Hawker Hurricanes were the best of their fighter aircraft, with the rest of the RAF and FAA being kitted out with biplanes from the interwar period that might as well have been made of paper going up against the Me-109s and 110s. And Whitehall was still stuffed with generals fighting WW1
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