The Russian military will only respond to deterrence, they know that they can steamroll ahead with their superior artillery firepower and Superior air power and simply inch by inch meter by meter Village by Village crush the Ukrainian military's resistance.
As bravely as the Ukrainians have fought and are fighting every day, they simply do not have the hardware to stand up to the Russian army. This is why the calls for immediate and vast delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine is so critical.
Negotiations: The door should always be open absolutely, but the point is Vladimir Putin will only come to the negotiating table willing to back down, willing to compromise and give Ukraine and the West something we want, if he is facing loss, if he's facing deterrence, right now the fact that we have leaders, we have President Macron and Chancellor Schultz making phone calls to Putin calling for dialogue. This is feeding right into Putin strategy, any notion of saving Putin's face is farcical.
And honestly, when I heard Macron make this statement about not humiliating Putin, I had the sense that maybe it's about not humiliating Mr Macron.
He went on his very high profile diplomatic mission to Moscow before the war began, said, I'm going to sit down with Vladimir Putin and talk to him. Well, that didn't work.
Vladimir Putin has a much better measure of the men in high office here in Western Europe than our leaders have of him. He's been in this game for a very long time. He's much more experienced PsyOps and our leaders have zero experience in this.
This is a tactical weakness that Russia is also playing with Putin knows that the egos of our leaders can be manipulated for his aims. He also knows that the fears of our voters are for him a weapon he can use by spreading fear in the population. He can ensure that our Democratic institutions and leaders have to respond to those fears and the number one thing that our leaders in Western Europe would need to do to assuage those fears is having a clear conversation with the public with the people of Germany or France and all across Europe to help them understand why this is happening what Russia's strategy is and what we are doing to counter it but instead unfortunately, especially in the case of Chancellor Schultz. He walked right into the trap, and he spread the fear himself even further.
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