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Steve Harrigan Returns From Ukraine With a Somber Message About the Situation
2022-03-15
[ConservativeTreehouse] Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan returns from Ukraine with a somber message about the situation and likely future. Harrigan notes that Russian victory in Ukraine is a foregone conclusion — Ukraine will be flattened if needed. However, that outcome comes at a serious cost.

The war inside Ukraine will wage on for years as an insurgency against Vladimir Putin. The western alliance will spend trillions if needed. NATO will kill as many Ukrainians and mercenary units as needed in order to battle Vladimir Putin in a proxy war. The industrial war machine will gleefully churn out the material needed for the DC based political war machine to purchase.
Posted by:Vespasian Ebboting9735

#11  Interesting that he accuses NATO, not Putin, of killing Ukranians. I wonder if he accuses the French of killing American revolutionaries.
Posted by: AuburnTom   2022-03-15 11:47  

#10  this war has already sucked up nearly all of Russia's best combat battalions.

that's why they are working to get mercenaries from Syria, train war capable criminals, transfer units from Siberia, etc.

I don't know for sure how bad their finances are they are likely also pretty dicey now and getting worse by the day.

Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-03-15 11:31  

#9  Struck a nerve, anon?

Read the second paragraph of the original post. Who is cast as the aggressor? NATO. NATO didn't invade the Ukraine; Putin's Russia did.

Putin can end the war in a couple of days and Russia will continue to exist; the Ukrainians can only end the war by surrendering. Given the Holodomor, why should they?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-03-15 11:25  

#8  
#7
absolve
Can you provide references to support that comment?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-03-15 09:44  

#7  Amazing how many "conservatives" will contort themselves to absolve Putin. Utter madness.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-03-15 09:31  

#6  A war sucks up all your ammo

And their production capability is low for smart munitions. It just got lower with the global boycott.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210   2022-03-15 09:19  

#5  returns from Ukraine

Guess he couldn't take the heat.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-03-15 09:01  

#4  Anything we can afford to wait out, we should wait out. This, of course, is the one approach that the frantic media and our frantic politicians are completely averse to.

"Do something! Now!" is the only course they know.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-03-15 08:51  

#3  The problem with this statement is that Russia doesn't have the industrial base to keep up with the level of war expenditures. A war sucks up all your ammo, supplies and fuel faster than anything and at greater levels than planned. And Russia is almost out of all those things, especially with 70-75% of its total military now deployed into the Ukraine.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-03-15 08:48  

#2  The industrial war machine will gleefully churn out the material needed for the DC based political war machine to purchase.

Schwinn bicycles, the Delta-88, and the Selectric-III are gone. War is now our business, and business appears to be good.

Yes Leonard, there is a very good reason Donald Trump is no longer the president.

“The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact”.

~ Geo Orwell
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-03-15 05:41  

#1  He's got a crystal ball 12 feet across and in Technicolor.
Posted by: Chuckles Barnsmell4617   2022-03-15 02:48  

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