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Iran warns Israel, US of ‘severe response’ in case of retaliation
(www.aljazeera.com)
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If WWIII is knocking on the door it started with Russia trying to invade Ukraine.
It tried? I'm fairly certain it did.
It depends on what you define as the endgame.
If Kiev is the end game, then Russia haven't succeeded. If Kiev isn't the endgame, the Russian 64km long column on its way to Kiev just becomes more than the pathetic failure of Russian military strategy it was at the time.
Capturing Kiev requires invading Ukraine first. Russia has invaded Ukraine. It has demonstrated absolutely zero intent so far to march troops into Kiev.
A 64km long column moving towards Kiev is pretty much "marching troops into Kiev".
Serious question, have you been able to find ANY Western reporting about any Russian feints during the first week of the invasion? I haven't been able to. Which is strange, because we have West Point saying that during some counter-offensives there were Russian feints, appearing to earnestly be asking the question of whether deception is still a major part of war. If you read the Wikipedia article about that 64km convoy, it's pretty much relying entirely on Western reporting, and the reports are pretty silly. Soldiers captured from that convoy only had 3 days of rations? Does that sound like a viable approach to capturing and holding a capital city? I don't think so. Just read that article and the sources critically - it doesn't look like a serious maneuver. It looks a lot like a feint.
So if Russia is known to use feints, but NONE of the initial maneuvers were reported as feints, then we are left with either A) Russia launched zero feints, or B) we haven't labeled which maneuvers were feints. That convoy looks A LOT like a feint to me. And how would a successful feint be reported by Western propaganda rags? As a victory for the West for having defeated such a great maneuver that also demonstrates the silliness of the opponent. That opponent, by the way, has destroyed Ukraine and there is no chance of Ukrainian victory at this point. So, do we trust the analysis that the convoy was an earnest maneuver, or do we see the evidence and think "perhaps this was a feint"?
It's stunning how quickly they shut up when you expose their brain rot.
Yeah well considering how Russia and Iran are buddy buddy, that makes sense. But I would say Russia vs Ukraine is the oil, and Israel was the spark as soon as they deliberately hit the Iranian embassy in Syria.
Na, that's just a large interstate.
Throw in Chinese expansionist policy, Trumps divisive attitude and a healthy dose of resource shortages... now were looking at world conflicts