Are we stumbling towards WW3?

https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/everyones-anti-war-until-the-war-propaganda-starts

This is what soldiers who are not valued and are considered expendable are like:

YouTube : Captured Rus Paratroop

While it leads to poor morale and occasional incompetence, this treatment of troops can pay off by having the enemy kill disloyal troops or those who you don’t want to pay or feed any more. It also lets you have a big scary army without having to spend money on it. Chinese, Imperial Spain in Mexico, Mongols etc used these methods. Often there will be a reserve elite force to protect the leadership from their own army.

Or it can simply be Saddam Hussein syndrome where the leadership is simply incompetent, capable leaders have been purged, and people are too frightened to deliver bad news or give honest answers to questions.

But Saddam didn’t have nukes…

@mchill said
Are we stumbling towards WW3? A: Possible, but not likely. Even if Putin gives the launch order, there are several people between him and the guy who actually pushes the button, I'd like to think at least 1 or 2 of them will disobey orders to avoid WW3

Indeed, is Putin stupid or something? Has he allowed himself to be provoked into a bankrupting war? A: Stupid, no I don't t ...[text shortened]... is, put their ego's aside, and take a less destructive path. I don't like this anymore than you do -

@jimm619 said
He may finally realize his fiasco and decide,
to 'take everyone with him,' a la' Hitler.

Someone Still Wants World War III
Why else leak that U.S. intelligence helped Ukrainians kill Russian generals?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-05-05/someone-still-wants-world-war-iii

NBC News doesn't seem to want to keep us out of WW3

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-intel-helped-ukraine-sink-russian-flagship-moskva-officials-say-rcna27559

This guy Zeihan has a clear explanation for Russia's motives and strategy:

YouTube : Zeihan Nine Gateways

First of all the Russians are not having children which means their population will soon decrease in number dramatically. This gives a sense of time urgency to Russia. If they are going to fight they need to move quickly.

Second, Zeihan suggests the Russian grand strategy is to take and hold nine chokepoints that control all access to the north Eurasian plain that Russia exists on. These chokepoints for the most part are outside of Russian direct control. The Russian army intends to remedy that according to Zeihan.

This means that Russia is not taking control of the Ukrainian coast for naval reasons but rather to block off the Bessarabian Gap.

The other two chokepoints in Europe are in Poland and the Balkans. The other six are facing south and east into Asia.

If Zeihan is right, Russia DOES intend to go into NATO territory because they think they need to control those Polish and Baltic chokepoints.

The map referred to above:

https://twitter.com/PeterZeihan/status/1495884492480913409

@athousandyoung said
This guy Zeihan has a clear explanation for Russia's motives and strategy:

[youtube Zeihan Nine Gateways]rkuhWA9GdCo[/youtube]

First of all the Russians are not having children which means their population will soon decrease in number dramatically. This gives a sense of time urgency to Russia. If they are going to fight they need to move quickly.

Second, Zei ...[text shortened]... go into NATO territory because they think they need to control those Polish and Baltic chokepoints.

@shavixmir said
Zeihan sounds like a nutjob.

@metal-brain said
Someone Still Wants World War III
Why else leak that U.S. intelligence helped Ukrainians kill Russian generals?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-05-05/someone-still-wants-world-war-iii

@kevcvs57 said
Why would that start WWIII?
The story about Putin putting a price on the heads of US soldiers didn’t start it.
If Putin didn’t know that the US and NATO would be supporting Ukraine with everything short of boots on the ground then he is really really retarded

@kevcvs57 said
Why would that start WWIII?
The story about Putin putting a price on the heads of US soldiers didn’t start it.
If Putin didn’t know that the US and NATO would be supporting Ukraine with everything short of boots on the ground then he is really really retarded

@shallow-blue said
Not as much of one as your pal Putin.