Phase 4 of the Russo / Ukraine war has been underway for many months. I ought to have started a new thread and explained why I thought so back when the Kursk offensive was launched on 6 August. It’s not news to anyone (who’s paying close attention) that this offensive has been spectacularly successful. Here we are nearly 6 months later and the Russians have been unable to eject the UAF. Instead Russian casualties have been massive. Rather than drive the UAF out of Russia events have ramped up all round instead with gigantic ammunition dumps inside Russia being destroyed and numerous oil and other installations. The Syria humiliation and the North Korean troops turning up! Cables being cut and the culprit ship arrested by the new NATO member Finland. A transport ship Ursa Major was sunk at the western end of the Mediterranean Sea and so on. On reflection it strikes me that not a week has gone by without bad news for the Russians.
The ground has obviously shifted under Trump as every body who knew anything about the war knew it would so now he’s kicking his ‘I will stop the war in 1 day’ 100 days down the road for the first kick. Kellogg https://www.foxnews.com/video/6367681268112 has calmed much Ukrainian supporters suffering from TDS thinking.
Some Ukrainian supporters are starting to look to Europe as they realize that Russia is not anywhere near as scary as it was even as little as a year ago.
My position is that Trump could play a positive ‘Trump card’ but I don’t think he can now play much of a negative card. The Europeans including NATO giant Turkey can if they have to take over and do what must be done to see that the Russians are driven out of all of Ukraine and NATO gets a New and powerful member.
We can now look forward to the German elections. (more Later)
Keeping focused https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVpWFWHKxI