thanks richard... good overview.. not sure how this gets worked out.. i would prefer a different scenario then the one you and medvedev cite, but i don't know what it will be.. we will see how it goes.. you may both be right!
Thank you for helping drive home the fact that Medvedev is not just flapping his gums. His voice and words carry serious weight - time to wake up and smell the coffee! Before it becomes unaffordable....
Thank you, Richard, for all your articles and this includes your today's outstanding summary of the situation and it is also good to see how Dima Medvedev summed it up so excellently.
If this goes the way you suggest, then we are likely to see a border far too long for a single "Front" or Army Group. You might see something akin to 1941 with a Southern Front facing Rumania, a Southwest Front facing Poland/Hungary (wherever borders there end up?), a Russian:Belorussian grouping in and North of the Pripet Marshes - a "Western Front", and a North Western Front facing the Balkans. Finland would need its own Northern Front or group of forces. Each of these Fronts would needs sufficient capabilities to deter any likely attack and would be sizable in their own right. As in Soviet times, Russia would also have large reserve forces as well as a mobilisation capacity to create new units and replacements.
By being so hawkish, NATO has encouraged Russia to re-arm itself. Soon it will have one of the largest militaries in the world, combat seasoned and with new and battle tested docrine and weapons, and led by experienced officers and backed by a revitalised MIC. Way to go NATO, I think you just achieved the polar opposite of what you intended.
Oliver Anthony's song hit YouTube early last week. By the end of the week he's world famous. Next week the song will be sung in karaoke bars nationwide. The following week it starts a revolution. Wouldn't that be something?
Politicians on the left and right are making the song their own using it to foment division in service to their Oligarch Mega Donor Masters. Those damn politicians are the Rich North of Richmond. Tell those politicians who are trying to make the song their own to piss off! It'll strike fear in the hearts of the billionaire Oligarchs because they know that now we're on to them and we're coming for them!
thanks richard... good overview.. not sure how this gets worked out.. i would prefer a different scenario then the one you and medvedev cite, but i don't know what it will be.. we will see how it goes.. you may both be right!
Thank you for helping drive home the fact that Medvedev is not just flapping his gums. His voice and words carry serious weight - time to wake up and smell the coffee! Before it becomes unaffordable....
Russia's history with the West goes back much further, centuries further back to the Crusades of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Thank you, Richard, for all your articles and this includes your today's outstanding summary of the situation and it is also good to see how Dima Medvedev summed it up so excellently.
If this goes the way you suggest, then we are likely to see a border far too long for a single "Front" or Army Group. You might see something akin to 1941 with a Southern Front facing Rumania, a Southwest Front facing Poland/Hungary (wherever borders there end up?), a Russian:Belorussian grouping in and North of the Pripet Marshes - a "Western Front", and a North Western Front facing the Balkans. Finland would need its own Northern Front or group of forces. Each of these Fronts would needs sufficient capabilities to deter any likely attack and would be sizable in their own right. As in Soviet times, Russia would also have large reserve forces as well as a mobilisation capacity to create new units and replacements.
By being so hawkish, NATO has encouraged Russia to re-arm itself. Soon it will have one of the largest militaries in the world, combat seasoned and with new and battle tested docrine and weapons, and led by experienced officers and backed by a revitalised MIC. Way to go NATO, I think you just achieved the polar opposite of what you intended.
Oliver Anthony's song hit YouTube early last week. By the end of the week he's world famous. Next week the song will be sung in karaoke bars nationwide. The following week it starts a revolution. Wouldn't that be something?
Politicians on the left and right are making the song their own using it to foment division in service to their Oligarch Mega Donor Masters. Those damn politicians are the Rich North of Richmond. Tell those politicians who are trying to make the song their own to piss off! It'll strike fear in the hearts of the billionaire Oligarchs because they know that now we're on to them and we're coming for them!