WW3 ? What are your thoughts ?

[Loveeee]

 

[BlueOak]

1, Ukraine have had plenty of small arms now since the aid came. This is why they are back on offense. They WERE starved yes, because aid was held up and it cost them territory and lives.
2, The average age is higher because the minimum conscription age is 25. (It was 27) and Ukraine now has 500,000 more men recruited for the summer. It's hyperbole again, how they describe it, but that's BP in a nutshell.
3. Russia is being hit across the border because it wasn't working at all to let Russia shell Ukrainian cities and forces with impunity. The war would never cease unless they were denied the ability to create it.
4, Yes BRICS is openly supporting Russia.
5, The momentum is not with Russia, it is more of a bitter stalemate, since aid came into Ukraine they have it actually (but only slightly)
6, France already has instructors there. Their death will not trigger Article 5 on foreign territory, this is again hyperbole from BP. 
7, Russia has threatened to nuke the UK every month. Things like the Queen's funeral, for example. It's part of the reason we've hardened toward them; if you threaten Western Europe enough, you get this situation. European powers remilitarizing, its been a long time since we had to, this will bring more war on the continent. 
8. Given that 30% of Americans support Russia, and probably 40% in total don't back the aid going, it's not America or Biden doing this or that, it's Biden supporting his allies. This maintains their main trading partner and a lot of the wealth America enjoys. If this instead gets past Ukraine, which it will one way or another if Ukraine falls, all of Europe goes to hell, and my gut says there is a good chance of WW3. 

War is horrible. These people live in a safe dream world thousands of miles from the fighting, and can't see the implications of what they are asking for. All they can report on is how bad war is, and say those fighting are bad people. Notice how it's all anti-Ukraine, though, and completely lopsided in its reporting. 

@Loveeee

Edited June 6 by BlueOak

[bebotalk]

I suppose it's more likely. 

[zazen]

Some highlights from a article by John Pilger from 2016 - https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/23/a-world-war-has-begun-break-the-silence/

''In the last eighteen months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War Two — led by the United States — is taking place along Russia’s western frontier.  Not since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat to Russia.

Ukraine – once part of the Soviet Union –  has become a CIA theme park. Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of the Russian speaking minority.

This is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.

In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — next door to Russia – the US military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This extreme provocation of the world’s second nuclear power is met with silence in the West.

What makes the prospect of nuclear war even more dangerous is a parallel campaign against China.

Seldom a day passes when China is not elevated to the status of a “threat”.  According to Admiral Harry Harris, the US Pacific commander, China is “building a great wall of sand in the South China Sea”.

What he is referring to is China building airstrips in the Spratly Islands, which are the subject of a dispute with the Philippines – a dispute without priority until Washington pressured and bribed the government in Manila and the Pentagon launched a propaganda campaign called “freedom of navigation”.

What does this really mean?  It means freedom for American warships to patrol and dominate the coastal waters of China.  Try to imagine the American reaction if Chinese warships did the same off the coast of California.

I made a film called The War You Don’t See, in which I interviewed distinguished journalists in America and Britain: reporters such as Dan Rather of CBS, Rageh Omar of the BBC, David Rose of the Observer.

All of them said that had journalists and broadcasters done their job and questioned the propaganda that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction; had the lies of George W. Bush and Tony Blair not been amplified and echoed by journalists, the 2003 invasion of Iraq might not have happened, and  hundreds of thousands of men, women and children would be alive today.

The propaganda laying the ground for a war against Russia and/or  China is no different in principle. To my knowledge, no journalist in the Western “mainstream” — a Dan Rather equivalent, say –asks why China is building airstrips in the South China Sea.

The answer ought to be glaringly obvious. The United States is encircling China with a network of bases, with ballistic missiles, battle groups, nuclear -armed bombers.

This lethal arc extends from Australia to the islands of the Pacific, the Marianas and the Marshalls and Guam, to the Philippines, Thailand, Okinawa, Korea and  across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India. America has hung a noose around the neck of China. This is not news. Silence by media; war by media.''

[Danioover9000]

@Loveeee

On 2024-06-06 at 4:51 AM, Loveeee said:

 

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