Sure lets double down and give them hell hmm?

Let's just forget they've prepared for this for 2 decades, have completely overhauled and modernized their military and just see where this will go. Great idea dude

thx. added to profile.

ok snowflake let them go from Ukraine/to Poland to Bulgaria etc.

Garry Kasparov pulling no punches.

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1496865471995523080

The only purpose of intermediate range missiles stationed at the border is to be first-strike weapons to disable those ICBMs before they launch. Precisely because they aren't hidden in the oceans or silos everywhere, and their only possible use is to be launched before the other side launches, in order to take out as many of those silos as they can. The reason for the cuban missile crisis was that first strike weapons violate the principles of mutually assured destruction, they require a preemptive attack. An existential threat that would plunge us into nuclear holocaust. When one side starts lining up intermediate range missiles on a border, that MAD deterrent is removed and a necessity to strike first is created.

Even with modern technology and submarine launches, enough intermediate missiles being staged would wipe out enough silos before a response could be ordered, that one side could take "minimal" damage in return while obliterating the other. That's why we had treaties to not only prevent the staging of such missiles but even their development. And the Russians started violating those treaties and making intermediate missiles again, to compete with the Chinese who were making those missiles while not subject to the treaty, while the US also developed them too and R&D portion of the treaty was basically annulled. But nobody was actually staging them on borders yet, that would be insane after the Cuban missile crisis.

No publicly trackable aircraft are operating over Ukrainian airspace right now. Not really surprising, as traffic over the area has been extremely sparse for days now, but there was usually a handful visible.

Bruh..

This isn't about taking NATO territory..

For a grandmaster, he's incapable of seeing more than one move ahead or identifying which pieces are under attack
Yeah we'll just undo 30 years of geopolitics overnight and replace Russian oil gas and wheat by using magical fairy dust to summon enough LNG terminals and boats and isolate Russia on a world stage while they expand their sphere of influence in actions nobody in the world lifts a finger to oppose, and of course repeal the first amendment for good measure. He's got a board of 3 pawns against someone whos kept ever piece and promoted to queen three times and he thinks its time to go on the offensive.

I think it will be slower than people expect. I think the Chinese will wait for the west to exhaust themselves with what's happening in Europe. It's also useful to them to study and see how the US/West responds to this so as to know what to expect.

By the time they move on Taiwan, I think the world is going to be extremely confrontation averse and the calls to stand up/defend Taiwan are going to be much weaker.