NP: On the Ukraine thread

[Mark Kohut]

As another early riser has responded,  just like the Georgian invasion.

Let's hope, I'm hoping, that
a muffled but made-known threat re the oligarchs money is the hole card
Biden knows how to play. This
scenario--Kyiv blitzkrieg--- I've laid out has to be in the
administration's mind since Biden gaffed with it
not long ago. ....that early responder friend of mine suggests we may be
considering actually 'stealing' the money
from what offshore accounts it is hidden........????

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 6:22 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> " The United States has picked up intelligence that Russia is discussing
> next Wednesday as the target date for the start of military action,
> officials said, acknowledging the possibility that mentioning a particular
> date could be part of a Russian disinformation effort."----NYT today
>
> Hardly following the developments, just "what I gather from [the]
> coincidence"--Bobbi D--- of my mainstream news",  I'm speculating this
> after Putin has now gone all in:
> This is fully plagiarized from some talking "expert" but my judgmental
> choice over the other taking head experts I've heard: Putin will invade
> now, otherwise the 'looking weak' at home and internationally raises its
> engorged prick head. He will try a kind of blitzkrieg to Kyiv, encircle
> it, show the Ukrainians and the world he could take it at will and then
> retreat
> back home. He can strategically lose whatever soldiers that takes; he can
> 'afford' it with his recent oil war chest and can even suffer the economic
> loss his ruble is already taking ....for a short while. And he knows he
> can't occupy the country since too costly.
>
> Since some have been wrong about all aspects of this situation since it
> started, I thought I would jump in, hoping I'm wrong, too. But not wrong
> because Putin goes all into the invasion and more people are killed than in
> the scenario above. And that he does occupy and take over a sovereign
> country. International war criminal then as well as an assassin of contrary
> individuals in his own country and on foreign soil.
>