Lenin said there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen

Lenin: "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” 

Mr Biden in his State of the Union speech yesterday said: "Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he will never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people".

Boris Johnson on Thursday: “Our mission is clear: diplomatically, politically, economically – and eventually, militarily – this hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure”.

David Goldman in a very interesting article on Saturday: "Ukraine is disappearing, for two reasons. It has one of the world's lowest birth rates at just 1.23 children per female, and one of the world's highest rates of out-migration. No other country has willed itself out of existence so decisively. Ukraine's demographic decline is so pronounced that it should be high on the list of strategic considerations. For what, and for whom, might NATO and Russia go to war?"

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Now the MSM is reporting that the war has worsened, the Russians have changed tactics, etc. Not a shred of evidence to suggest that the Russians didn't plan it this way from the beginning.

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Sanctions, schmanctions. We're long past that. Once Russia decides that a security threat is existential, "think of all the things that you couldn't believe Russia will do. Well, they'll do them," says a European military intel source.

Carl von Clausewitz, quoted by Jonathan Shaw: “If there must be war, victory lies not in defeating an army but in securing the willing submission of a populace. Stability, not a passing triumph of arms, is the test.”
Historian Stephen Cohen in 2014: "If we move NATO forces toward Russia's borders ...it's obviously gonna militarize the situation [and] Russia will not back off, this is existential".

Noam Chomsky in 2015: [Ukraine's desire to join NATO] "is not protecting Ukraine, it is threatening Ukraine with major war."

The Wall Street Journal on Sunday: "Pope Francis on Sunday lamented the “tragic” war in Ukraine, and had strong words for those who wage war in general, but he didn't speak of an invasion or refer to Russia by name. That makes the pope, who has made a priority of better relations with Russia, one of the few Western leaders to have refrained from explicitly condemning the attack on Ukraine."