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CNN guy confidently asserting that if NATO wanted to, it could easily establish air supremacy and enforce a no-fly zone 🤔 I don’t think it’s that easy here, plus there’s nukes in the picture, and the no-fly based “small wars” approach of Bosnia seems miscalibrated here.
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There’s a thesis that’s never been tested at work here — that post-Soviet Russia is an asymmetrically weaker opponent, especially in the higher-tech theaters, not an equally matched one. It might very well be true.
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Despite the Russian rhetoric of a weak, comfort-loving west (a tediously old authoritarian line about democracies that’s repeatedly proved false), the west has been continuously waging high-tech foreign wars since the fall of the Soviet Union in a way Russia hasn’t been.
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Ah a thread about it
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There's a powerful lobby pushing for a "no-fly zone" over Ukraine. If Biden listens to them, he will start a shooting war with Russia. This is not a drill. It's the closest we've been to World War 3 since the Cuban Missile Crisis. 🧵
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If force is too risky in Ukraine (protected by Budapest memo), than it is certainly out of the question for Taiwan which is considered part of China. NATO air forces would trounce Russia. We're on our 3rd generation of stealth; Soviet era Ukraine is getting wins. Logistics too.