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Give Ukraine their no-fly zone!

This is fucking bullshit. The Biden administration, along with many Republicans, are trying to tiptoe through a minefield, just to reach a cliff on the other side.

The only thing everyone seems to agree on is that Putin intends to recreate the USSR, or possibly the Russian Empire. Shit, even if he plans to stop at Ukraine, he certainly doesn't want Moscow and St. Petersburg to become the next Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think that would kind of throw a monkey wrench into his expansion plans.

He's got a couple of big advantages over NATO members. First of all, he's ruthless as fuck. He thinks nothing of throwing his own citizens into a long period of economic suffering and hunger. In his mind, they've been there before and survived. He doesn't care about his own soldiers dying for a cause they don't even understand. And apparently he doesn't mind occupying a pile of rubble that was once a thriving country. (I'm sure he has his reasons.)

Has he gone totally insane? Unless he took a crazy pill just a few months ago, I think not. Every US President since Clinton has considered him a shrewd tactician. Biden recently called him a "worthy adversary." Regardless of how much we despise his objectives and methods, there's no denying he's always been a savvy and intelligent motherfucker.

Never forget that Putin is a master of deception. If we think he's gone nuts, it's because that's exactly what he wants us to think. (Nice touch, hitting that nuclear plant, but only the admin building. Wow he MUST be crazy, right?) He knows full well that in a conventional fight with NATO, he'd be wiped out immediately. Half an hour of full-on attack by our F-35s and those untrained and undersupplied young conscripts would throw down their weapons and run away with just their dicks in their hands.

So Putin is doing what he does best - manipulating everyone else's behavior with a giant mind-fuck. The crazier and more unpredictable we think he is, the less likely we are to intervene in any meaningful way, and he's playing us like a fiddle... (or a balalaika).

If we don't put an immediate end to this Ukraine invasion, Putin's endeavors will seem like nothing when China follows his example and moves on Taiwan. But crush this whole thing now, in a quick and decisive manner, and watch how fast President Xi will distance himself from Putin and start behaving like a good little boy.

Putin ain't gonna push that button. And if he did, our missile defense systems are 10 times what his are. That is, if he even has any. The only way to avoid the dreaded "World War III" is for the US and its allies to maintain absolute superiority both militarily and economically. Right now we're failing at both because we have a bunch of pussies in charge.

Set up the no-fly zone, and simultaneously annihilate that 40-mile convoy of tanks. His entire military will surrender and the citizens of Russia will revolt in a way he won't fucking believe or be able to control. He will have lost everything, and nobody there will have the balls (or the stupidity) to launch a nuclear strike on his order.

And I'll go one step further. It's been well reported that many of these "oligarchs" and other top Russian officials have their children attending some of the most prestigious universities in the US and UK. Well, I say grab them and throw them all in prison. They only get out if and when this whole Russian invasion thing is resolved to our liking.

Putin wants to act crazy? We give him crazy right back.