Ukraine's fate is still up in the air. The American interests in Ukraine aren't. That's one distinction to be made in all this.
We're not winning the war, we're not rebuilding the iron curtain and perpetuating a forever proxy war against Russia. That is going to come to an end. Russia is not going to invade the baltics, NATO is going to resume a rough approximation of the status quo ante when the dust is settled. Maybe the EU will question how much of a burden it has from Ukraine, but honestly it won't trouble us much. Our interests are mostly settled, maybe we can strike up deals with Ukraine and Russia for rebuilding and resources but its not really a major consideration in the scope of the world, not compared to hostilities between the two biggest nuclear powers.
But for Ukrainians? This ball is in their court, I can't tell you how this ends. This is absolutely the kind of step that could be written in history books as presaging the fall of the zelensky regime and western government and create a power vacuum like we've been dreading for a few years now, and as I pointed out repeatedly, the heavily armed Nazis who already overthrew one government, are the obvious inheritors in a vacuum. Can Zelensky appeal to the EU to prop him up and be the new puppetmasters? Will he come back to Trump with his tail tucked between his legs? I don't know. Its chaos
When the dust settles, the Azov boys are going to hunt down the draft dodgers.
They'll be hanging under bridges missing limbs & their heads with signs reading "I was a coward for not defending the homeland"
This post was edited by El1te on Feb 28 2025 05:57pm