This Jan 2022 post makes clear the unreality of the Biden Adm. had in trying to get Putin on-side versus China was bloody obvious to the Non-Expert.

All you had to do was follow Phillip Karber's lectures on the Donbas war to see Putin was an irredentist Russian nationalist
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...in exactly the same way that Adolph Hitler was an irredentist German Nationalist.

Right down to Putin playing "Pan-slavism" in Ukraine exactly the way Hitler did the "German Volk" in Czechoslovakia.

The difference being the Ukrainians people fought tooth and nail...
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...despite their government, while Czechoslovakian elites & people did not.

What really gauls me is the fact that German SPD and American Democratic legislators bought this Russian irredentist bulls--t and took Russian money.

I've ranted enough about the SPD & Gazprom.
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We have several Democratic congressmen and a senior Biden National Security policy maker who took Nord Stream II lobbying money.

Go look them up. I can't use their names, because @TwitterSupport

The one I can mention is the deceased Rep John Conyers ban on US Military
4/
...contact with the Ukrainian Azov para-military movement because Putin called them "Neo-Nazis" for effectively fighting Putin's Russian irredentist thugs in Donbas.

The word I got at the time Azov was cut off was that Russian lobbying was responsible.

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The US Military *still* cannot provide aid/support to Azov, despite Putin's invasion, thanks to Russian lobbying of Conyers.

The thing Putin made clear in his screed announcing the invasion of Ukraine was that politicians who are calling others "Neo-Nazis" & "Fascist"...
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...in the 21st century are simply projecting their personal identity and political brand/plans onto their opponents.

The example of Putin's use of "Neo-Nazi" & "Fascist" on Ukraine will make those charges use in Western political discourse radioactive...
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...because the immediate counter by those being named such will be

"You're just like Putin. You use "Nazi" on anyone you don't like because you want to be an Evil Nazi to them."

And the people using that counter on such politicians will be correct.

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For the sin of being the new guy, I was the DCMA quality auditor in charge of the US Army's FMTV "vehicle exercise program" at the contractor manufacturing them from the Mid-1990's to the mid-2000's Then we got more new guys.

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People do not understand the implications of 55 "NATO surplus" Mig-29's arriving in Ukraine immediately mean.

The UAF cannot assimilate & use those Mig-29's that quickly without pilots and ground crew to go with them.

Unless this is NATO's version of Chennault's Flying Tigers.
Pres. Zelensky already has a program for immediately inducting any foreign soldier who wishes to fight for Ukraine.

You might have serving Polish, Slovakian and Bulgarian MiG drivers in the mix along with their ground crew.

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Any Russian or Belarus aircraft over 50 meters altitude w/in 300 km of NATO borders is now a target.
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Excerpts from the column:

"Russian airborne forces managed to take an airport ten kilometers outside Kyiv. Efforts to use that airport to bring in additional troops were disrupted by the Ukrainian use...

strategypage.com/qnd/russia/art…

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The subject of this thread is the Russian VDV airhead at the Hostomel Airport just North of Kyiv and a rumor associated with same.

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Rumor with lots of 🧂🧂:

There is a rumor that the Ukrainians used a (or several?) Tochka-U SRBM to break VDV resistance at the airport near Kiev.

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If true, the 82nd Airborne Division & 18th Corps are obsolete concept tactical unit far overdue to get its walking papers.

You can't paradrop anti-ballistic missile systems with a ready brigade.
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