Has President Biden

[v8vega]

For the 1st time in human history you can say "He is a idiot" and 90% of the world will know exactly who you are talking about.

[Neil]

Donald Trump? Vladimir Putin? Just add evil and you've got the whole package for each of them.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

What would you theorize would be the situation if Trump were President as we have been dealing with Putin’s cruel madness against Ukraine ?
I’m curious and serious in my inquiry.

[Neil]

Putin was going to do what he did regardless. Trump didn't care about Putin's evil while he was Presient, and has even praised him recently. Another example of Trump loving authoritarian leaders like himself. L'etat, c'est moi, as a French king once said. Trump also weakened NATO and clearly had no interest in more US military adventures abroad. This last is not a bad thing, of course, since most of our military adventures abroad during the last 40-50 years have been unmitigated disasters which have cost us greatly in blood and money, and, also have the distinction of having achieved next to nothing (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan).

Bottom line, we'd still have a lunatic madman in charge of Russia regardless of who is the US president. Would not be surprised if NATO has to defend the Baltic States and Poland against this deranged would be emperor. There is a real danger of nuclear war if Putin cannot achieve his goals in Ukraine. Hopefully not, but when a delusional psycho is in charge, there are no assurances.

[HONDO74]

with Putin’s cruel madness against Ukraine ?

How about the Ukrainians cruel madness against the JEWS. ?

Collaboration in Ukraine
A number of Ukrainians had collaborated: According to German historian Dieter Pohl, around 100,000 joined police units that provided key assistance to the Nazis. Many others staffed the local bureaucracies or lent a helping hand during mass shootings of Jews. Ukrainians, such as the infamous Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, were also among the guards who manned the German Nazi death camps

Until the fall of the Soviet Union, it was believed that about 900,000 Jews were murdered as part of the Holocaust in Ukraine. This is the estimate found in such respected works as The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg. In the late 1990s, access to Soviet archives increased the estimates of the prewar population of Jews and as a result, the estimates of the death toll have been increasing. In the 1990s, Dieter Pohl estimated 1.2 million Jews murdered, and more recent estimates have been up to 1.6 million. Some of those Jews added to the death toll attempted to find refuge in the forest, but were killed later on by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or by some nationalist units of Home Army or other partisan groups during the German retreat. According to American historian Wendy Lower, "there were many perpetrators, albeit with different political agendas, who killed Jews and suppressed this history".

From 16–30 September 1941 the Nikolaev massacre in and around the city of Mykolaiv resulted in the deaths of 35,782 Soviet citizens, most of whom were Jews,

The most notorious massacre of Jews in Ukraine was at the Babi Yar ravine outside Kiev, where 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation on 29–30 September 1941. (Some 100,000 to 150,000 Ukrainian and other Soviet citizens were also killed in the following weeks).

[Mitch]

Putin was going to do what he did regardless.

True. Putin is/was KGB. He still believes he can reinstitute the USSR, as his previous incursions have shown.

Trump also weakened NATO

False. Trump was finally able to get every NATO member to finance their own defense, instead of relying on the US taxpayer. Each country is responsible for 5% of their GDP for their defense contribution, but the US was footing the bill. Only Poland made the correct payments. NATO is not weakened. We still share arms and technology to their defense departments.

and clearly had no interest in more US military adventures abroad.

True. Can't blame Trump for doin' that, and I tend to agree with that policy. He had a good plan to get out of Afghanistan instead of the fiasco that the current administration pulled off, but didn't get to implement it.

Bottom line, we'd still have a lunatic madman in charge of Russia regardless of who is the US president. Would not be surprised if NATO has to defend the Baltic States and Poland against this deranged would be emperor. There is a real danger of nuclear war if Putin cannot achieve his goals in Ukraine. Hopefully not, but when a delusional psycho is in charge, there are no assurances.

True. I agree.

[gregj410]

What would you theorize would be the situation if Trump were President as we have been dealing with Putin’s cruel madness against Ukraine ?
I’m curious and serious in my inquiry.

Maybe the real question is why didn’t Putin invade Ukraine while Trump was in office?

[robert.]

He may have waited for us to be out of the Middle East.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

What would you theorize would be the situation if Trump were President as we have been dealing with Putin’s cruel madness against Ukraine ?
I’m curious and serious in my inquiry.

Maybe the real question is why didn’t Putin invade Ukraine while Trump was in office?

Assuming he “waited,” that is an interesting point and perspective worth pondering.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What would you theorize would be the situation if Trump were President as we have been dealing with Putin’s cruel madness against Ukraine ?
I’m curious and serious in my inquiry.

Maybe the real question is why didn’t Putin invade Ukraine while Trump was in office?

Assuming he “waited,” that is an interesting point and perspective worth pondering.

Maybe he thought he would not have to wait and that he would have been invited in last year; since that failed to happen according to plan, this year he invaded.

[HONDO74]

What military and economic support could China offer Russia?
https://www.bbc.com/news/60571253

Could China supply drones to Russia?

Moscow has asked China for military equipment in support of its invasion of Ukraine, according to US official quoted in media reports.

China says this is untrue and has called the reports "disinformation".

In recent years, most of the movement in arms has been the other way.

China has relied heavily on Russian military hardware to modernise its armed forces, made increasingly necessary by the imposition of US and European arms embargoes in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

About 80% of China's total arms imports were from Russia between 2017 and 2021, according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

These Chinese purchases make up 21% of Russia's total arms exports - its second largest global customer.

But China has been gradually expanding its own military production capabilities.

It's now the world's fourth largest arms exporter.

"China's weapons are getting more advanced now. Its drones, for example, are one area that Russia would be very interested in," says Siemon Wezeman at SIPRI.

But, he says, "so far we haven't seen any evidence" that Russia has bought Chinese drones.

[Mitch]

A Russian spokesman states the missile that hit within 12 miles of Poland was a cruise missile fired from an aircraft inside of Russia, which means it traveled over most of Ukraine. An errant missile that might hit Poland or the Czech republic would be the ultimate disaster.
I remember in the American Desert Storm, a reporter had asked a US General how accurate a cruise missile actually is. The officer replied that it could be fired from hundreds of miles away and that programming and flight were so accurate that they could fly it right between the end zone uprights at RFK stadium in D.C. That's a US missile. Even though you wouldn't want to see missiles hit any part of Ukraine, are the Russian built cruise missiles that accurate? Will the missile actually follow it's programming? One can only hope that one don't overfly and trigger a NATO response.

[HONDO74]

I don't know how accurate their cruise missiles are but they have enough ICBMs to wipe out the east and west coast of the US. They didn't have those back in 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. I remember 1962 very well. I was living in California at the time going to Jr College and it was like everyone was in panic mode thinking we were going to have a war with Russia.

Russia pulled their missiles out of Cuba and We pulled ours out of Turkey. That was the deal that JFK made with Khrushchev.

I think you are right the Putin is going to level the Ukraine.

[HONDO74]

This should be a BIG wake up call for Biden and the US.
Since we are defending the Ukraine against Russia are we going to defend Taiwan against CHINA

China's nuclear threats are following on the heels of Russia's threats and should be a US wake-up call

It cannot be a good sign that Russia and China are making nuke threats at the same time

China’s Ministry of Defense on Thursday threatened to impose the "worst consequences" on countries helping Taiwan defend itself.

"The Taiwan question is purely an internal affair of China, which brooks no outside interference," a ministry spokesperson told reporters. "No one and no force can stop the historical trend that China will solve the Taiwan question and realize a complete national reunification. To anyone who makes troubles on the Taiwan question: The higher you jump the harder you fall."

Revealingly, China Military Online, an official English-language site of China’s People’s Liberation Army, translated the last sentence of the spokesperson’s words this way: "Anyone who makes troubles on the Taiwan question will suffer the worst consequences in the end."

Usually, Beijing’s official English translations soften Chinese texts. This is one of the rare cases where the opposite is true, indicating the Chinese military is itching to use its nuclear weapons.

The belligerent warning was issued a day after contentious talks between Chinese ruler Xi Jinping and Australian officials. The Chinese side was particularly incensed by comments from Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton, who pledged full support for Taiwan. "Whatever we can," Dutton said, referring to Australian aid to the island republic.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

We need rescued by good sense from somewhere (?)