Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu on Tuesday said the US and NATO were trying to prolong the war in Ukraine and that their military aid and other support for Kyiv threatens an “unpredictable escalation.”
“The United States and its allies have been trying to prolong the conflict as much as possible. For this purpose, they are supplying ‘heavy offensive weapons’ and openly calling on Ukraine to seize Russian territories,” Shoigu said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
“Such moves are actually drawing NATO countries into the conflict and can eventually lead to an unpredictable escalation,” Shoigu added. His comments came after a series of escalations of Western military aid, including heavy tanks and longer-range missiles that can hit targets up to 94 miles away.
Discussing Russian military operations, Shoigu said operations in the Donbas near the Donestk city of Bakhmut “are developing successfully.” Russian and Ukrainian forces have been locked in heavy battle around Bakhmut for months, and in recent weeks, Russian troops have been making territorial gains.
Ukrainian forces have been taking heavy losses defending Bakhmut and the areas around the city, something Kyiv’s Western backers have acknowledged. Shoigu said that in January alone, 6,500 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, but the numbers aren’t confirmed.
While fighting has been raging around Bakhmut, Russia still hasn’t launched its long-expected major Russian offensive. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials are warning that Russia has amassed hundreds of thousands of troops and that a big assault is looming.
I just don’t see a way either side in this is going to stop short of massive tragedy. This is the ultimate disaster, and it’s getting closer every day, with more and more experts warning of apocalyptic consequences. Even if Russia withdraws, the USA establishment wants them broken, and I don’t think even Russia can stop our psychotic leaders from continued escalation.
Why care about work? Why invest for retirement? Our leaders are only getting more foolish, more sure of their own invincibility and less able to countenance negotiation or even questions and dissent. If we escape this debacle alive by some miracle, they are already lining up an attack on China.
I’ve tried to be smart and live my life as expected. I’m gainfully employed, a homeowner, with retirement accounts. But why? None of it will mean anything once our leaders have killed us.
Well, everything politicians say and do is an act, except for the fool part of course, so maybe they’re not really the hate crazed sociopaths they seem. Not to sound all sunshiny.
It’s too bad that our evil leaders, who are behind this Ukraine war, cannot be targeted for extinction. It’s always our young, being used for cannon fodder, that pay the ultimate price.
That’s why I maintain it’s a great time to max out your credit cards and enjoy life while you still can.
More accurate to say uncontrollable escalation than unpredictable escalation. It is the inability of either side to control events that is most dangerous.
https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/
the “unpredictability” of it is in the fact that we do not know what exactly will escalate, even if we know things will. Perhaps it will be a misplace bomb here, like in poland, or perhaps the US will have CIA agents bomb accidentally in an area they weren’t supposed to be. US actions are increasing the likelihood of escalation, but that doesn’t mean we know what it is that will cause the escalation.
Or it will turn out that giving the foreign leader, who is actively cheering for a world war so he can be Winston Churchill, a bunch of long-range offensive weapons with no strings attached, is a bad idea.
Hopefully the Russians will stage manage their operation so the Ukrainian soldiers can mostly surrender en masse, and then Washington can smooth things over by spinning it as a victory over China and then just flying over the weapon companies and dumping cash down on them. While we all wave flags.
Surrender en masse? You are a dreamer.
Yeah, they’ll probably be slaughtered. But at least Russia might be weakened. Some.
i wonder if Raytheon has their own flag
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OMG why am i not surprised
I believe it’s about time we take Russia’s word.
America is self destructing, lets just let them do it.
America is self destructing, lets just let them do it.