The Free World is safe? Not hardly. China has a lot of issues that we need to address, including the fact it is expanding it's allies capacity to war by supplying weapons to Russia. It also has a really annoying way of producing submarines in record numbers. The reason China is do that is because it wants to sink all the USA nuclear submarines, which is one of the legs of the USA nuclear triad.
Seeing Russia as it is, is to pretend it is incapacitated in some way. It isn't. If Russia knew what was good for it, it would become a neutral country along with China instead of this insane nuclear arsenal idiocy. Vladimir Putin will kill the last of everyone of his citizens before he will wave the white flag.
By the way, where is his money that he has stowed somewhere in the Panama Papers. Two billion offshore. He is not worried about evading the World Courts.
Chris Panella and Jake Epstein
Russia will emerge from its war in Ukraine a "shattered military power," (click here) a senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday, stressing that the country has yet to achieve any of its goals and is expected to continue to struggle on the battlefield.
Colin Kahl, the under secretary of defense for policy, told US lawmakers that the situation looked "dire and pessimistic" for Ukraine when Russian forces first invaded in late February 2022, but after a year of fighting, it has become clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin has "lost" the war.
"While I don't know how the war is going to end, I think we already know one conclusion for sure, which is that Russia has lost," Kahl said during a House Armed Services Committee session on oversight of US military aid to Ukraine. "They intended to take over all of Ukraine — that didn't happen, it's not going to happen. They intended to divide NATO — NATO is stronger." ...
