The Ukrainian army pulls out from another eastern village as Russia smashes defensive positions
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-army-pulls-another-eastern-140226915.html
@LoriQuaid I wonder if this surprises anyone. Did people really think that #Ukraine would beat #Russia?
@realcaseyrollins with the help of Western allies they absolutely could have.
Unfortunately, the Western allies dropped the ball and screwed it up. We should hold them accountable for that.
Folks like Biden snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
@realcaseyrollins I'm under the impression that the US did enter an obligation to protect Ukraine in exchange for their giving up nukes.
But even that doesn't really matter.
The US decided to spend a lot of money and resources to defend Ukraine, but Biden wasted that, trickling it out and putting limits on its use. Had he simply provided it without limitation all at once it would be a very different story today.
I think the US was obligated, but regardless of whether it was or not, the US decided to engage, but it engaged in a strategically flawed way, and we really need to call the president out for that.
He botched it. He continued to botch it. We can't take back what has happened over the last 2 years, but we should recognize how badly it was botched.
@walkman @volkris @LoriQuaid Yeah the whole point was to degrade #Russia's military, I thought this was public knowledge
@walkman meh I guess I'm not assuming anything.
I'm saying they could have had a victory if they wanted to, but Western allies behaved in a way that they did not.
If you ask me, I guess I would assume that they would have wanted one, but regardless, whether they wanted a victory or not they didn't operate in a way that would get one.
@volkris @walkman @realcaseyrollins I'm still wondering what the hell our military objective was in Afghanistan...
No idea, my brother did two tours there and said when Biden pulled. What was it for in the end?
@leyonhjelm @realcaseyrollins @volkris @walkman I've wondered about that. If true, they could fund their own operations without any Congressional oversight.
Rumor is they’ve been free of actual need for decades between that and their coke ops. The government could “disband” them and they’d probably just still operate fine for their own purposes with no reason to play along with the US anymore. Or so goes the theory.
@realcaseyrollins @volkris @walkman
@walkman @realcaseyrollins @volkris Not only that, the U.S. doesn't declare war anymore. So the Senate's constitutional role in constraining military action on the part of the executive branch has kind of evaporated.
But the same can be said of treaties. Supposedly, the Biden administration has entered into all sorts of "bilateral agreements" regarding Ukraine to tie Trump's hands in the event that he elected. If he takes office, he should submit these as treaties to the Senate.
@LoriQuaid Well right, that's the key: we should always emphasize that without Senate approval any agreement is simply a handshake agreement from the president that has no binding for the next one.
It's weird how many countries don't seem to understand how that works. Or they pretend not to understand. Either way.
We should all emphasize to the world that without an actual treaty it's just what the current president personally thinks and the next one is free to do otherwise.
@volkris @realcaseyrollins @LoriQuaid
No, FBJ gave Putin the wink to invade and then he has sent tons of cash to Ukraine all the while holding their hands behind their backs and never giving them what they need at the time they most need it. This is all on FJB!
@volkris @LoriQuaid To be fair, #Russia declared war with #Ukraine, not the #USA, and the #USA has no obligation to participate in any of #Ukraine's wars.