Joe must wanna keep the fear level down going into the election, one less concern along with lower gas prices and the effects of the recent legislation should also help reduce the general level of fear people feel. When we are fearful our focus narrows, we tend anger easily, to go tribal and critical thinking is impaired. It's easy to get people to feel fear and anger if they think a hoard of the "others" are invading the country taking over and replacing them, like in Ukraine only in their imaginations. Slow and steady, don't spook him into leaving or using nukes, let him bleed out slowly in the trap.
I figured once Joe had Vlad by the nuts he would squeeze a bit harder, however, day by day Vlad's military might is being ground down as irreplaceable munitions are spent and equipment is lost, along with the officer corps. The Russians are still being steadily reduced in Ukraine and to strengthen the south they must weaken the east and their dependence on rail transport makes them vulnerable. The Ukrainians have shorter lines of internal communications and could attack in the south or the east but the Russians need to go the long way around, including via Kerch to Crimea.
A longer war means longer sanctions and atrocities mean seizing Russian money held abroad, it means less European dependency on Russian energy and deep damage to their economy.
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What U.S Aid to Ukraine is ACTUALLY Doing
154,600 views Aug 7, 2022 $54 Billion Dollars in American Military Power Projection gets Ukraine no tanks, Infantry Fighting Vehicles or Fighter Jet Aircraft like the M1 Abrams, M2 Bradley, or F-35. What is the strategy here with this money? What is the United States goal with sending aid to Ukraine. Will it help with the counter offensive? Can the US Army intelligence services hope to help out in this war for that amount of funds? The Russian Invasion of Ukraine has entered a new stage in the south in Kherson and east in the Donbass. Who will win, remains to be seen.
