The US cannot move military ships into the Black Sea, so could not have landings in Odesa. Anyway, it is much easier to just move troops by land from Poland.... Assuming that the USA wanted to move troops into Ukraine.
The War in Ukraine
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The danger with that strategy is that Putin can use it anywhere. He can announce that the only two options with Alaska, or even Florida is either he gains control over them, or everyone loses with a nuclear war. While he does not claim Florida, yet, he has claimed Alaska.
I would ask a simpler question, "does trump think?"
Got busy with other ventures for a few days. I really cannot post here every day.
You really do overestimate me.
America learned that people fight very hard to protect their homelands and families. We were driven out by countries with no navy and no air force. Winning can be losing because you will have no peace. The people will fight underground and snipe and chip away. It is a constant drain of money and soldiers. The attackers citizens begin to protest and criticize . No peace abroad and unrest at home are not prizes worth a war.
You feel I am grinding you down towards slavery? I am sorry that you feel my posts grind you down, but am interested in this talk about slavery.
My belief about the world is that slavery may have made some sense in a preindustrial culture, but in the modern world it makes no sense. I would rather have you as a well educated contributing member of society than as a useless slave. I might be wrong. So how do you think your slavery would benefit me?
Good to see that not everyone is overestimating me.
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You may have noticed that Russia has gotten in very few wars in comparison to the U.S. over the years. Russia has much more of a focus on things that are close to home. It's why they essentially left Syria, for example.
Putin doesn't seem all that interested in Alaska. I found an article where Russian citizens asked him about it. Here it is:
What Putin Has Said About Russia Taking Back Alaska
Multiple Russian officials have recently alluded to potentially reclaiming Alaska because of U.S. sanctions, a move discussed by Vladimir Putin in 2014.
www.newsweek.com
As I've said, Russia tends to focus on areas close to its home turf, unlike the U.S. that tends to stage coups and invade countries halfway around the world.
Russia has troops all over Africa, fighting on the ground. Russia has been moving its troops into almost all the former countries of the USSR, with the exception of the Baltic States. Even with the Baltic States, it has been doing just about everything short of war.
Scott
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The U.S. moves in troops just about everywhere too, but unlike Russia, they -do- engage in a lot of coups and outright invasions. I think American Professor and Statesman Jeffrey Sachs said it quite well in a speech he gave to European Parliament recently:
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There have been around one hundred regime-change operations by the U.S. since 1947, many in your countries [speaking to the MEPs] and many all over the world.
(Political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke documented 64 U.S. covert regime-change operations between 1947 and 1989, and concluded that “Regime change operations, especially those conducted covertly, have oft en led to prolonged instability, civil wars, and humanitarian crises in the affected regions.” See O’Rourke’s 2018 book, Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War. After 1989, there is ample evidence of the C.I.A. involved in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Venezuela, and many other countries.)
That’s what the C.I.A. does for a living. Please know it. It’s a very unusual kind of foreign policy. In the American government, if you don’t like the other side, you don’t negotiate with them, you try to overthrow them, preferably, covertly. If it doesn’t work covertly, you do it overtly. You always say it’s not our fault. They’re the aggressor. They’re the other side.
They’re “Hitler.” That comes up every two or three years. Whether it’s Saddam Hussein, whether it’s [deposed Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad, whether it’s Putin, that’s very convenient. That’s the only foreign policy explanation the American people are ever given. Well, we’re facing Munich 1938. We can’t talk to the other side. They’re evil and implacable foes. That’s the only model of foreign policy we ever hear from our government and mass media. The mass media repeats it entirely because it’s completely suborned by the U.S. government.
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Full article:
Jeffrey Sachs: The Geopolitics of Peace
The author explains manipulative U.S. post-war foreign policy to European MPs, explodes myths about Ukraine and urges an independent European foreign policy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjcMoDFU1xg&ab_channel=MichaelvonderSchulenburg This is an edited transcript of Professor Jeffrey Sachs’
consortiumnews.com