I've been criticised by some people as Putin's cheerleader for pointing out the reality that Ukraine is being badly defeated militarily and needs to agree to Putin's demands to save lives, salvage its sovereignty and give NATO time to rebuild its strength.
I'm not Putin's cheerleader at all.
I'm just realistic that emotional rants on social media, self destructive sanctions, appalling racism against Russians and hypocritical double standards are not going to stop him.
Nor is escalating the war into a direct confrontation with NATO, which Russia would likely win at the moment given the parlous state of NATO military forces.
Only massive military force (which NATO doesn't have at the moment) can stop Putin.
NATO needs time to rebuild (just like the Allies needed in 1939).
The Unpalatable Reality
This is my comment that prompted the accusation of being Putin's cheerleader.
What Putin is doing is winning.
He will kill as many people as he needs to to achieve his military objectives.
Ukraine should have surrendered 10 days ago. Now the real meat grinder begins.
It is a gruesome fact of war that the vast majority of deaths on the losing side occur after it is clear they have lost, when they chose to fight on. The South in US Civil War, the Germans in WWII, the 30 years war.
I don't know who leaked Israeli PM Bennett's private advice to Zelensky to surrender but it was the most sensible thing Bennett has said in years.
I am Israeli and a trained soldier: We know war and Putin
I am partially observant Israel Jew living in Tel Aviv, less that 400km from a major Russian airbase and naval base (Latika) whose air force (IAF) flies through Russian air defences on a daily basis to destroy terrorist and Iranian positions in Syria.
In the 1990s I served for almost 4 years in the Australian Army Reserve and trained as an infantry officer.
Less than a year ago thousands of rockets were fired at my city and I had to take my family (including 3 kids under 4) into our bomb shelter safe room as we could hear the booms of the rockets and missile defence system fighting it out in the sky outside.
My oldest daughter posted this video from inside the bomb shelter.
https://odysee.com/IMG_9649:103001adbd2d4dcf89c6b73a87bfc300f3de9f5d
I didn't see this worldwide outpouring of sympathy and offers of support for Israeli civilians under fire from genuinely evil terrorists committing real war crimes a year ago.
Israelis know war and they know Putin.
We are sympathetic to Ukrainian civilians (because we actually know what its like to live under fire) but know that the best way to save Ukrainian civilian lives is for Zelensky (and his US puppet masters) to agree to Russian demands.
Ukraine cannot win, they can only salvage some sovereignty and save lives or be wiped out as a state with a huge cost in lives.
The Holocaust
The Holocaust happened because Jews were stateless and had no way to defend themselves from Nazis (just like those Azov Battalions many are cheerleading for in Ukraine). Now we do.
We (Israel) spend 5-6% of GDP on defence to protect ourselves from our enemies.
The Europeans (who spend less than 2%) need to start spending the same percentage on defence and stop wasting resources on a lost, indefensible cause (Ukraine).
They will need every Javelin and MANPAD to save themselves when Putin moves on to Poland and the Baltics and then Germany and The Netherlands (which are completely undefended).
Russia saved Jews from the Nazis
Jews were only saved from almost complete extinction in WWII by the brave sacrifice of 30 million Soviet, mostly Russian, citizens who did 90% of the fighting to gradually crush the most frighteningly superb fighting force the world has ever seen.
Then the USA, which sacrificed very little, claimed credit for beating the Nazis (when they mainly fought old men and children on the Western Front).
After the Soviet Union collapsed internally (because Socialism doesn't work) the USA became the sole superpower (having never won a land war outside its near abroad) and went around invading weak nations, bullying everyone and virtue signaling its righteousness (when it has killed millions for its selfish interests, just like other major powers).
A multi-polar world is better for freedom, liberty and cryptocurrency (which enables both) and destroys the globalist (Davos crowd) agenda.
Putin needs to be stopped at the Polish border. He cannot be stopped in Ukraine.
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