| BFR said: Bottom line, Ukraine can win this war if the West continues to support it, especially by dropping weapons restrictions. |
Yeah. The West is too used to peace that it's so easy to scare them now, we spent months debating how escalatory it would be to send tanks, we spent months debating how escalatory it would be to send long-range missiles, we spent months debating how escalatory it would be to send jets, we spent months debating how escalatory it would be to allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory now we've spent months debating how escalatory it would be to allow Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range missiles. In all this time we've spent debating, Ukraine has suffered and then we're in a scenario where we can't train Ukraine with as much care as we do our own troops, we have to turn 1-2 year training courses into 3 month training courses because Ukraine doesn't have the time...Because we wasted time listening to Russia's threat number 50,000.
China's Final Warning, Russia's Red-Lines. They have the same thing in common, they were never acted on, how many times has Russia threatened to nuke Europe now? How many times have they warned us about "red-lines" and said they're at war with us? NATO doesn't even shoot down fucking Russian missiles and drones entering their own damn airspace out of fear of escalation, it's our damn airspace that's being violated! Instead we follow the drones and missiles out of our countries so they can hit Ukrainian schools and hospitals. Putin didn't even do shit when Wagner marched on Moscow, he fled to St Petersburg for fuck sake. This is a man who doesn't want to die. Even Lukashenko, Putin's biggest ally, has said that Russia would never use nukes because it wouldn't benefit them, Lukashenko can see it but NATO can't.
How bad of a look is it if recent developments are true? That America is going to allow Ukraine to use Storm Shadow on Russia but won't allow Ukraine to use ATACMS on Russia...Storm Shadow, a missile that America didn't even have a hand in creating, a missile entirely made by the UK and France. That America has been blocking us from giving permission to Ukraine to use it on Russia. Gee, thanks for your permission America that we can finally choose what we do with our own missiles. But then America is saying no to ATACMS? Which has roughly the same range as Storm Shadow? That's a horrible look, it not only makes America look like a coward, it will also make them look stupid when Russia doesn't do anything to UK in response. It makes them look like they've just thrown the UK, America's closest ally, to the Russian wolves, Lmao.
But I want to make clear I'm still grateful for America's support, without it, Ukraine would have likely lost, I'm just very frustrated over the past few months of having to listen to even more escalation management after over 2 years of escalation management, I just wish we could do better because we are not doing everything we can for Ukraine. Tbh though, I think we should take this discussion elsewhere.
