Quote (Goomshill @ Nov 7 2024 12:13pm)
Its just predictable, like I've said since before the war even began.
After the war ends, there will be a huge supply of advanced American weaponry in the hands of extremists. We won't get all our guns, drones, artillery, vehicles, etc back. The Zelensky led puppet government won't be sustainable under internal pressure in the aftermath of a war loss to Russia, not without foreign backing- and the US won't be willing to prop it up indefinitely. The EU might, folding it into the welfare state, but at great additional stress to their fragile economy. You'll have a group of battle hardened militants who play either a significant role in the post-war government or who simply take it over, sitting on a horde of weaponry. Either they put it to use for terrorism / regional conflict, or they at a minimum sell it on the black market. All those drones and bombs going into the hands of America's enemies either way.
When we left a power vacuum in Iraq and Syria with heavily armed and hardened extremists, they formed ISIS and it led to all kinds of terrorism, another entrenched conflict and eventually our intervention to stop them. What's supposed to be our exit strategy in Ukraine? The neo-nazi power brokers only tolerate the US forcing a puppet jew to harp on about LGBTQ rights because we're paying their salaries and giving them their guns. Look what happened in Afghanistan the moment the US stopped buying off the warlords- the Taliban bought them off overnight.
Ukraine could stay glued to the EU teat and as long as that's the case, a sort of government halfway between a zelensky puppet regime and a nationalist azov regime could exist, trying to appease both those wishing for sovereignty and those reliant on foreign assistance for any quality of life. American taxpayers aren't going to be footing the bill directly 10 years from now, that's for sure. But if/when Ukraine is abandoned, left to fend for itself? The poorest country in the EU, made even poorer as its stripped of its natural resources, oil/ag/mining all fallen into Russian hands, left shattered with bombed out infrastructure and nonfunctioning utilities, massively depopulated with all the men and children dead or fled, and the remainder a bunch of nihilistic nazis with a massive stash of arms? Doesn't take nostradamus
just bumping this, to acknowledge it.
Desensitization to Violence, as we see in the middle east, has a huge impact on society. and yes all this was said early on in the topic. inevitable.
This post was edited by ferdia on Nov 8 2024 03:33am