No it is a very basic instinct of nature, survival of the fittest and knowing when you cannot win and need to throw in the towel. Lensky does not have the intelligence to see this and is on a power trip thinking he can win, and is more than happy to drag nato into the conflict but at what cost to the country and potentially to us all. There is nothing wrong with talking to resolve issues no mater how big they are and if talking fails then we are all looking at a potential extinction event that the west seems more than happy to pursue. Facts are facts, even if Russia does not win they will certainly not lose because they will take everyone down with them and have that capability in abundance. This is from an interview with a retired American colonel who can clearly see what is at stake with the current American policy regarding Ukraine and clearly does not see the point in sacrificing his country for Ukraine.
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And if you think about just Virginia, where I happen to live, if there were a nuclear war—and keep in mind, they also have a very large and effective fleet of nuclear submarines that lie off the coast of the United States. They have a great number of nuclear-tipped missiles, and they can evade any defenses we have. So just in Virginia, if you look at it, all of Northern Virginia would be essentially annihilated. There would hardly be any human life remaining in Loudoun County, Prince William County, Fairfax County, Arlington, Alexandria. The Pentagon lies in in Arlington County: The Pentagon would simply be a glowing mass of molten sand. There would be no human life there. And there would be no human life for many miles around it. Just across the Potomac, the nation’s capital, there would be no life remaining in the nation’s capital. The Capitol building would disappear forever. All of the monuments, all of these glorious things—nothing would remain.
If you go to the coast of Virginia, you have the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, you have the Port of Norfolk. you have the greatest accumulation of naval power on the face of the Earth. This is where we park all of our aircraft carriers, our nuclear submarines, all of those things. There would be nothing remaining. There would be
nothing remaining of any of those shipping industries there.
And you can carry this on. You talk about New York City, probably New York City itself, not only would everybody be killed, but it would probably be impossible for people to inhabit New York City for hundreds of years afterwards. But not only would it cease to be a place of vibrant human life, but probably going out for maybe half a millennium, it would not recover any sort of civilization.
We need to understand the gravity of what we’re doing. Perhaps if it were a matter of life and death for the United States, what happens in Ukraine, that would be one thing. Certainly when the Soviet Union put missiles in Cuba, that targeted the United States, that was worth taking the risk, because it was right on our border and it threatened us. And it was it was a battle worth fighting for and a risk worth taking. The Russians are in this in exactly the mirror image of that situation, because for them, the life of Russia depends on stopping NATO from advancing further right into Ukraine, right to their borders. They cannot afford
not to fight this war. They cannot afford not to win this war.
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Before we go gung ho trying to help Ukraine fight off the bullies perhaps we need to see the enormity of the gun barrel we are looking down, this unfortunately is not anything like a few bulies in a school playground and don't think of the little bombs the americans used in Japan because the new multiwarhead ones are destroyers countries.
Look at the potential yields of who has what and then think about why talking is so extremely important to bring this conflict to an end by applying the brakes and notthe throttle.
