Russia isn't waging a proxy war against Ukraine, they are attacking them directly, and suffering heavy losses. I have no doubt China would do the same.
The USA is a democracy and as such we can't get away with sending large numbers of our kids to needless slaughter.
How many us troops are in Iraq,Syria,cyprus,turkey,egypt,philipines,germany,japan,many parts of Africa both those officially reported and those they can't disclose their presence including plausible in Ukraine and or Israel/Gaza
Get ur facts straight,the president has provisions to deploy up to 90,000 troops without congressional jurisdiction
Does that sound democratic to you?
Many us servicemen and women have been sent into harms way that you don't hear in the mainstream media until public opinion shifts to such issues or until they take casualties and they can no longer hide the reports
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It's a double negative. If nobody will not use them then somebody will
Jokes aside, I'm not sure if Putin is completely sane. He uses nuclear arsenal as a deterrent saying that if attacked he will use them, but at the same time attacks other countries hoping that they won't. I'm also pretty sure that Ukrainians would nuke Russia if they had access to nukes, the same way that Palestinians would nuke Israel.
Knowing that, I think it's not a question if but when.
Take your idea of a war with NATO. NATO is much stronger than Russia, even if Russia was using Chinese weapons. It could prolong the war, but it wouldn't win it, mainly due to untrained army that would have to fight well trained artillery and tank crews from Germany, France and Sweden. Russia sends convicts to Ukraine because that's all they can do without weakening their borders. They expected a war that would last weeks and it's been years. What would happen if they started a war and lost it? Do you think NATO would push them back to the border and stop there? Defeated Russia might try to cover their escape with nuclear weapons.
What parameters did you base your argument on?
Britain is effectively out of arms and has no military stockpile(check out articles in the daily telegraph which is a British media company or others like it),Germany is planning to train and field 5,000 -30,000 troops to be sent to the Baltics by 2027,
According to and admitted by western intelligence Russia is outproducing the entire west ie USA and all it's allies NATO inclusive in artillery,drones,missiles,tanks,aircrafts,ships,submarines,practically in everything Russia outproduces the west and in terms of troops,well simply put last year Russia added 500,000 plus troops well trained and equipped to the smo in Ukraine something none of the western countries is able to do
The USA is experiencing up to 65% fall in recruitment targets,all European militaries are a joke,they've never at any point in history been able to stand in the way of the Russian military so where are you getting your claims from or is it just wishful thinking
Also nuclear weapons are for deterrence and you thinking a conflict with a nuclear armed power means the other nation will be nuked means you're ill informed for instance Iran very recently had clashes with Pakistan and nukes weren't even mentioned so you need to stop all this fantasy and focus on reality
War also involves economy to sustain it,if a war were to break out between NATO and Russia ,the entire eurozone is in recession,Germany has been de-industrialised,France and Britain essentially have no standing army of more than 100,000 troops and that's me exaggerating,the USA's economy is a joke cos it's more of a virtual economy focusing on stocks and shares and outsourcing production to other countries and Russia which effectively produces everything it uses en masse backed by China the largest economy in the world,not mentioning iran, north Korea,Belarus and India
How exactly is it that you see NATO being able to even engage in not to talk of winning such a conflict
Currently, Russia does not pose a clear threat to other countries except Ukraine, but Western provocations may push it to do so. The expansion of the conflict outside Ukraine is what is causing turmoil in the global economic market and is what has compounded the crisis. The policy of economic sanctions on Russia had the opposite effect.
If you believe that Russia is the most important actor in the world, then your conclusions are completely inaccurate. There is a war between two camps, one led by the United States and the other led by China, and the Ukrainian war is only one manifestation of that conflict. Those forces that lead the alliances are the ones capable of causing the global economy to contract or stagnate.
So China made Russia invade Ukraine? How did they pull that off?
It did not make Russia Ukraine, but it supported that military operation and did not declare its opposition to it from the beginning, as most countries in the world did. It also did not abide by the international sanctions imposed on Russia and expressed its approval to buy Russian petroleum products. Isn't this considered declared support?
You can imagine what the situation would have been like if China had not been an ally of Russia, or it can be said that China is the one moving things behind the scenes on the Russian side, just as the United States plays the same role on the Ukrainian-western side.
Were there any international sanctions imposed on Russia in connection with the smo in Ukraine or were they just us and the collective west sanctions?
Your analysis is very flawed and is very funny to read,you're implying that Russia an economic powerhouse,the largest country in the world in terms of land mass,the country with the largest deposits of oil,natural gas and other natural resources(till date america still imports uranium from Russia and even LNG),the largest producer of oil,natural gas,fertilizers,grains,a technological hub,a nuclear armed superpower with one of the if not the largest military industrial bases since recorded history of wars especially the 2world wars able to defeat Nazi Germany and liberate all of eastern Europe
You're trying to make the argument that that same Russia is somehow a proxy and is being funded and or controlled albeit behind the scenes by China?
Totally laughable claim and devoid of reality
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