I hope this is true, but I have my reasons for not trusting the US.
This should have been done in early 2022, threats and violence is the only things the russians understand (just at look at the history of russia and show me one major example of good faith behaviour on the part of the russians).
I don’t trust the US on anything. I won’t refuse the intel, but if not corroborrated with NATO, I would assume Trump and Putin to be collaborating on fictional targets meant to waste limited long range strike capabilities.
Big energy infrastructure doesn’t move around much; you can validate it using commercial satellite images and open-source intelligence, and if it comes with the promised long-range missiles, it’s a very big deal.
you can validate it using commercial satellite images and open-source intelligence
Then what Intel were the Americans providing in the first place?
What is easy to validate can be time-consuming to figure out in the first place. Plus per the article, the US will provide weapons capable of hitting the facilities.
Situational data and secret stockpiles and facilities. That’s the type of data the US could help with.
Can it be corroborated with NATO? I would like to think yes, as its purpose was defence against Russia, but I don’t really know.
Is this what y’all wanted?
We wanted peace and prosperity. Russia wouldn’t allow that so here we are.
So this is what you wanted. You wanted Trump to escalate the war.
You have a better idea?
Putin cannot be reasoned with any more than Trump can. Ukraine has to fight their way out.
Trump is literally doing what you wanted, so it looks like someone reasoned with him.
Nah. Nobody reasoned with him. He just got angry at Putin. He’s an animal of instincts and feelings, not one of logic. He does random things. A random decision can sometimes be good, sometimes bad.
You cannot really say anything about the quality of a decision just from it being in the group of “decisions that can also be chosen randomly”.
He says he’s doing it. For now. We shall see. taco.
Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is a useful idiot once in a blue moon.
Who is “y’all” and what is “this”?
For me, I want the war to end with Russia leaving Ukraine the hell alone. I’m not an expert on geopilicital military strategy, but it seems like the people fighting for Ukraine want any intel that helps them repel the invasion force. Striking within Russia’s borders might force Putin to withdraw and defend his own country rather than murdering civilians in another country.
It might not work. It might ratchet up the violence, and it might result in the suffering and death of innocent people. I don’t want that, but I’m not in a position to say that “this” makes that outcome more or less likely.
What is it that you want instead?
