RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@Alpha1Nine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Alpha1Nine</span></a></span> <br>There is much, way too much, ‘ink’ wasted on what <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> will or will not do. We already know what the fascist bully wants, he told us and has shown us many times already. </p><p>Nothing short of a convincing victory over the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> army in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> will dissuade the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Orcs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orcs</span></a> from continuing their conquest of their neighbour.</p><p>If <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afghanistan</span></a> was able to resis, persist in the face of overwhelming odds with limited help from the West, Ukraine can do this too, US <a href="https://aus.social/tags/treachery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>treachery</span></a> notwithstanding.</p><p>It falls to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> and the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CoalitionOfTheWilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoalitionOfTheWilling</span></a> to push the Russian forces back across Ukrainian borders and force the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PutinMobster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PutinMobster</span></a> to the peace table (Not the other way around). I have no doubt <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> can do this on their own because 1)What have they got to loose from putting the Russian Bear back in its cage, and 2) it is no less capable than the US on the battlefield. </p><p>End of story.</p>