I’m Gerry and I love mandering

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Hmmm. I agree they’re no threat to the US in the sense that they’re not going to suddenly invade.

    As for the performance of their military in the Ukraine war, I’m not convinced they’re as “corrupt and poorly managed” as they’ve been presented in western media. Granted, the assault on Kiev was a shitshow but things have changed a lot since then, and the most likely outcome right now looks like some sort of victory for russia in that war - probably with Russia ending up in control of all the territory they claimed to have ‘annexed’, plus a corridor including Odessa.

    It’s worth remembering Ukraine’s military was and is enormous and extremely well equipped with modern tanks, rocket artillery, all the ammunition the west is capable of manufacturing and shipping, satellite surveillance, anti air defences, everything, and seem (at least to me) to still be losing the war.

    I read this… https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-the-ukraine

    Maybe John mearsheimer is full of shit, and too pessimistic, but what he outlines in that article is grim