Realitybites said:
trey3216 said:
But that is entirely untrue.
Of course it's true. If it wasn't true, then there would be no need to make statements that would broaden this into a Russia/NATO war, and the Russian military could simply take it out of the hide of the Ukrainians. Outside of Clown World, there's no incentive for the Russians to hit London or Paris in exchange for strikes on their territory when simply flattening Kiev or Lviv would suffice.
Nobody is trying to broaden this into a Russia/NATO war. NATO is NOT taking part and Russia is NOT firing on NATO. EVEN if NATO was providing advisors, Russia is NOT attacking NATO.
Russia is receiving aid from China, Iran and N Korea. That is part of having allies. We are not happy with China over their support of Russia, but the US is NOT going to war with China over it.
Not every Nation needs the same support, Russia needs Chinese trade and oil support not intelligence or military weapons training. It needs Iran's dones. N Korea's ammo. Ukraine needs NATO's weapon systems and intel sharing to compete.
The aid is not the same, but has the same result - Continue fighting. Starting to make a little more sense to you? Neither Russia nor Ukraine is attacking anyone else, they can't even support the fight they are in. If Putin all of a sudden had a Eastern threat from say Alaska - Game over. He can't handle the logistics of fighting little Ukraine.
Do not even think Nukes. No one is going Nukes, except for energy.