Symposium: What would US intervention in Ukraine really look like?

[BeckyDem]

Scholars, journalists, former military and intel officers weigh in on the wide-ranging costs of military aid and a clash with Russia.

January 24, 2022

Excerpt:

A New York Times article late Sunday reports that the Pentagon has handed Biden several options that would shift American military assets much closer to Mr. Putin’s doorstep, including troops and warships and other military assets to allied countries in the region.

Responsible Statecraft asked a host of military and international relations scholars and journalists, as well as former military and intelligence officers, what it would look like if the United States decided to intervene to defend Ukraine. We asked them to answer the following prompt:

“Many in Washington, including media pundits, are saying the U.S. may have to get involved militarily— directly or indirectly — to defend Ukraine should Russia invade. Yet they do not expand on what that would actually mean in practice, or in costs. Based on your experience and expertise, if Washington decides to defend Ukraine against a Russian invasion, what kind of costs and repercussions would such a conflict incur (long and short-term), for the United States and for the region?”

Respondents:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/01/24/symposium-what-would-us-intervention-over-ukraine-really-look-like/

[rampartc]

1. probably a lot like the nazis at stalingrad

or napoleon on 1812.

or more likely 10,000 hiroshomas.

we could not defeat the afghans, why mess with the russians? we can begin such a war with conventional weapons, bit it can not end that way.

[marie999]

2. That is why they have had proxy wars over the last 60+ years.

[Democrats_win]

3. MADness aside, we need anti-Putin doctrine on steroids.

The article makes a lot of sense--but they don't deal with our great power to punish Putin. For one thing, cut off their "effing" internet! In so many ways Putin has been a menace to the world and it is high time to fight back. Cutting the lines may be difficult but DO IT!

I'm sure Biden has a whole list of other sanctions to impose on these dangerous oligarchs.

MADness on. Imagine our expensive (worthless) F-35s, the west has 700 of them, wiping out Putin's tanks.

Or "imagine there's no religion." Russia is a big time "christian" country. Oh, and Ukraine is 70% Orthodox! Isn't that the same religion as Russia? The disciples asked Jesus how they could tell his true follower. He responded: if they have love among themselves. Hmmm.