Thread by @EmpireinWinter

'Given the overwhelming supremacy Russia has both in terms of the ability to project air power backed by precision missile attacks, a strategic air campaign against Ukraine would accomplish in days what the U.S. took more than a month to do against Iraq in 1991.' [Scott Ritter]

https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1480544663442440192

'My hunch is that Russia will not do even that but that the 'military-technical measures' it says it will take should the talks fail will create a new threat to the U.S. itself. A repeat of the Cuban missile crisis by other means.'

'The Cuban crisis led to the elimination of U.S. nuclear missiles stationed in Turkey and Italy and aimed at Moscow. A similar crisis today could likewise lead to a U.S. and NATO retreat from eastern Europe'

'Russia has won real & hybrid wars in South Ossetia, Crimea, Syria, Armenia, Belarus & now in its soft underbelly Kazakhstan after those countries came under attack.'

'Leaders of the last four countries, all multi-vector politicians who were trying to play with the 'west' & Russia, have found out that Russia is their best and only friend and have decisively moved into its camp:'

'it appears that the narcissistic megalomaniacs running the West have confidently waltzed into a carefully laid Russian trap which, far from giving the Empire the control of the countries it “almost” acquired, made them lose them for the foreseeable future.' [Andrei Raevsky]

'Russia has done this with little cost and to great effect. Meanwhile the U.S. and NATO have lost their wars, most recently in Afghanistan.

It is time for the U.S. and NATO to acknowledge that.'