Russia/Ukraine, and The U.S./Europe

Packerjohn said:
There is a lot of money to be made in war. Think of the profit factor selling all those war machines. A lot of people are laughing all the way to the bank and then smiling and grinning all the way back.
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I believe it is called the Industrial Military Complex. We were warned about this by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address to the nation on January 17, 1961.

Eisenhower Farewell Address
 

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amwassil said:
Putin has not 'drafted' 300,000 reluctant protestors who don't want to fight nor believe in the war with Ukraine. He activated reservists and is apparently going to deploy them to free up current active members to use in Ukraine/Donbas. It looks very much as if he's planning to annex the eastern Ukraine oblasts after they vote next week to secede from Ukraine and petition to be annexed. The vote is not in doubt since 90%+ of the people in Donbas and southern Ukraine are Russians. So I think he's planning to position half a million regular active Russain troops, not conscripts in what will then be - quite legally by international law, by the way - Russian Federation territory.

Re your comment about Russian troops being a disgrace, read Douglas Macgregor’s "Holding ground, losing war" - my last link above.
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If he has not drafted 300,000 men, why have men been protesting in the streets and flights out of Russia have sold out for 4 days?
 
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Maybe Russians trust their government even less than we trust ours. They certainly have good reasons not to. But the current mobilization refers to 300,000 reservists - not conscripts.

https://news.antiwar.com/2022/09/21/putin-orders-partial-mobilization-issues-nuclear-threat-to-west/

Putin didn’t specify the number of reservists that will be activated under the partial mobilization, but the Kremlin later clarified it will be 300,000, which Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu recommended. Putin said Russia will call up “Only those citizens who are currently in the reserve and primarily those who served in the army and have particular military specialties.”
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https://news.antiwar.com/2022/09/22...ving-asylum-to-russians-fleeing-mobilization/

An EU spokeswoman for the European Commission said Thursday that the bloc should give asylum to Russians fleeing the mobilization order, but the EU’s members are not on the same page.
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Maybe they don't trust Russians...
 
I would guess that Russia will dig in and fortify all they possess now. Let winter arrive. Flatten / carpet bomb everything near to the west of their new borders, including roads and bridges. Control that nuclear power plant and the gas that Europe needs. Keep all the natural resources they now own.
 
The more "losses" the Russian military suffers, the more "radical" Putin's reactions will become. All indicators point to a miserable Winter coming for much of Europe....as heating and fuel costs rise substantially. Either some means must be found to remove Putin, or the NATO nations will have to relax their "sanctions". If not, Putin's finger will creep closer and closer to his "nuclear" button.
 
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