Okay, warhawks ... do you want to take two totally different scenarios and apply the same solution?
OK.
My opinion.
1.) Direct War between the U.S. and Russia is not to be undertaken.
2.) Promise Russia that if they use nukes Russia will be a glassy meadow on the maps.
3.) Inform Russia that if they don't make peace quick - we will provide Ukraine with more long range weaponry and the green light to use them and any domestically produced weapons (like long range drones) to destroy such things as Russia's oil industry - bringing Russia to its knees.
4.) Do a serious audit of every nickel of American money sent to Ukraine. I'm assuming there were any number of demo-rat 'slush funds' and if we find where biden & co. were getting kickbacks - hang him from the yard arm.
I believe the article is correct in that neither the biden administration nor the euro-weenies had any plans (and possibly no intention) of prosecuting the Ukraine war to victory.
I also believe Russia is in deep trouble. I don't think Russia actually has the manpower to prosecute the war much longer. Note that Russia recently was reduced to 'hiring' N.Korean soldiers to fight. Russia also has a severe manpower shortage.
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‘A perfect storm’ Russia is facing a severe labor shortage. Economists say it will only get worse in the coming years.
http://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/11/a-perfect-storm
December 10, 2024
Why is Russia short on workers?
Longtime geographic trends
The workers currently joining the Russian labor market are from the relatively small generations born in the 1990s and early 2000s. From 1987 to 1999, Russia’s birth rate dropped by half, demographer Alexey Raksha noted to iStories. He estimated that the number of people leaving the working-age population will continue to surpass the number entering it at least until the generation born in 2007 joins the workforce.
Throughout the 2000s and into the early to mid-2010s, Russia had a high proportion of working-age people, according to Salavat Abylkalikov, a Cara fellow and visiting researcher at the U.K.’s University of Northumbria. On one hand, there were relatively few older people due to the demographic consequences of World War II. On the other hand, there were few children due to the low birth rates of the chaotic 1990s and early 2000s.
Concerns about a severe labor shortage in Russia due to demographic factors began appearing as early as 2021, when the worker deficit was estimated at 2.2 million people — the highest in seven years.
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There is a LOT from this article that I skipped.
Some Blurbs :
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Russia Suffering Worst Labor Shortage in 25 Years - Newsweek (2023)
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Russia short of around 4.8 million workers in 2023, - Reuters
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Zim.
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