I have nukes; you stay home

From We Meant Well

“I have nukes and that allows me to do certain things any way I want because they stay below the threshold of risking atomic war. This is why the US could destroy Quaddafi and Saddam (no nukes to deter) and why the US will never attack North Korea (nukes.) Being a nuclear superpower makes things easier; the US can fight all over Central America and the Middle East, and Russia in the ‘Stans, and none of that is important enough to consider using nukes to stop.

“Putin knows that. Biden knows that, as does NATO. Ukraine, however, is still thinking it can change the game.

“Ukraine knew on Day One no one was coming to its rescue, and its leaders know they don’t have enough men or weapons to defeat the Russians on their own.” 

https://wemeantwell.com/blog/2022/03/18/deterrence-works-propaganda-fails-in-ukraine-so-far/

Link at Knuckledraggin’

Not saying all the videos out of Ukraine are fake, but when a story telling how Ukraine regular army and militia defeated a Russian motorized infantry battalion, destroying half the tanks and armored personnel carriers, but the photographs show only a tractor pulling a  BTR, I wonder where are the other destroyed vehicles? Many photographs show what is said to be a Ukrainian farm house destroyed by Russian artillery, but the pieces of scattered lumber and torn roofing material have no signs of blast or fire. Maybe whoever posts questionable videos and pictures took lessons from White Helmets.

Remember that the governments of Russia and Ukraine both are criminal enterprises masquerading as something civilized. Both were founded on lies and exist on more lies.