The Ukraine-is-Winning news isn't all fluff. Hitting deep into Crimea is a bfd for Russian security. It signals that the stakes are rising and a much broader region is at risk of collapse. The war is escalating in both size and scope. I won't be surprised to hear about attacks inside the Russian or Belarusian border. Or reprisals in Poland and Lithuania. If shit gets really bad, Scandinavians may even get drawn in.
In much the same way that the Iraq War began with this pointed assault on Baghdad, only to inflame and spread until it was spitting off civil wars all the way out to North Africa, this looks like a coal-seem fire that will just keep burning and propagating for decades. We're going to turn all of Eastern Europe into Silent Hill.
I'm definitely not claiming it's not a big deal rather pointing out that to the imperial core it is the only big deal. That is to say Russian/Chinese/Iranian/etc failures are painted as sure signs of their incompetence or failure while any such failures, or often even larger ones, on the side of "the good guys" are treated as totally inconsequential.
Which is as you say part of making everything worse. the fighting will continue. If attacks on Russia continue attacks on Ukraine will continue and so on. And of course those who suffer will be the workers who can't just fly away in their jets.
It's the same shit as always. Russia loses an ammo Depot and some old planes... They're over. Finished. Done. Haha.
Ukraine loses 25% of it's land, dozens of depots, command posts, thousands of tanks. They're winning. Victory imminent.
Same thing with china of course. They have a bank being assholes. Communism is finished. Ssseeeseepee over.
America has its ninth once in a lifetime financial crash in the last 20 years. Capitalism is stronger than ever. Liberal democracy baby
The Ukraine-is-Winning news isn't all fluff. Hitting deep into Crimea is a bfd for Russian security. It signals that the stakes are rising and a much broader region is at risk of collapse. The war is escalating in both size and scope. I won't be surprised to hear about attacks inside the Russian or Belarusian border. Or reprisals in Poland and Lithuania. If shit gets really bad, Scandinavians may even get drawn in.
In much the same way that the Iraq War began with this pointed assault on Baghdad, only to inflame and spread until it was spitting off civil wars all the way out to North Africa, this looks like a coal-seem fire that will just keep burning and propagating for decades. We're going to turn all of Eastern Europe into Silent Hill.
I'm definitely not claiming it's not a big deal rather pointing out that to the imperial core it is the only big deal. That is to say Russian/Chinese/Iranian/etc failures are painted as sure signs of their incompetence or failure while any such failures, or often even larger ones, on the side of "the good guys" are treated as totally inconsequential.
Which is as you say part of making everything worse. the fighting will continue. If attacks on Russia continue attacks on Ukraine will continue and so on. And of course those who suffer will be the workers who can't just fly away in their jets.