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Thoughts on Biden's speech?
This looks to be to shore up the resolve of the Baltics. Some see this as WW3.
I see too many moving parts now, this has a momentum all its own. This could still draw down but we are looking more to chance than choice at this point.
Just a statement of truth by Biden, and definitely not a call for regime change. Or if Putin gets toppled Biden clearly meant it as something the Russians have to rise up and do themselves because it quite literally can't be done by anyone else. Gun-shy & isolationist-Trump-bros Twitter had their usual freak-out, going "oh no, it's like Iraq in 2003 all over again, thanks to the globalists!", which is total crap. Unfortunately, IMO, the only direct attack by US forces will come if Russia uses any NBC weaponry in Ukraine. And if/when that happens it's just as likely the US will hit Russian forces with conventional airstrikes only, just like they did in Kosovo and Syria.
This inevitable caterwauling that erupts whenever even the ghost of escalation appears really bothers me. I figured it out 14 years ago when the neo-cons kept going on about how great things in Iraq were even when dozens of US personnel were dying there in insurgent attacks. But the reverse side, because of the way Iraq was botched, meaning that US can't take any action anywhere ever again is just as ridiculous.
It doesn't take much to be a so-called foreign/military policy "expert" these days. Just a big mouth & a podcast or YT channel. Once again, the internet's main effect on current events turns out to be providing a platform for too many voices, especially the irrelevant or outright stupid ones.
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