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Posted on 04/16/2024 3:21:43 PM PDT by Apparatchik
A Chinese specialist on Russia has delivered a grim forecast for Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine: that it is doomed to fail.
Peking University professor Feng Yujun is also cooling on the future of Beijing-Moscow relations, writing in a recent op-ed in The Economist that the two nations have diverging visions of the future of global affairs.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
If only FR were so open minded and free…
In other words, “let Russia and NATO slaughter each other and go bankrupt, then the CCP will swoop in and take over what’s left.”
Everything from China is managed.
So I take this with a grain of salt.
Wow THE Feng Yujun said THAT!!!
How does it feel to have been wrong about everything?
“ Peking University professor Feng Yujun is also cooling on the future of Beijing-Moscow relations, writing in a recent op-ed in The Economist that the two nations have diverging visions of the future of global affairs.”
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I watched a debate between Professor Feng Yujun and Professor Wun Hung Lo of Cal State and Professor Feng Yujun did very poorly.
Ukraine territory is undefendable, especially in an era with satellites and drones. Russia has far more people who seem more willing to fight than their Ukrainian counterparts.
Even if Zelensky can get NATO to send more money/arms, who will there be left to deploy it to the battlefield?
The only hope for Ukraine is NATO formally entering the war, but that could eventually lead to WWIII. Also, it appears that NATO may now be a paper tiger as they all claim that their stocks of arms have been depleted by what they have already handed over to Ukraine. Since the West has chosen Finance over Manufacturing, our ability to restock pales in comparison to Russia's. The longer a NATO v Russia war lasts, the better it will be for Russia.
I'm pretty sure this academician's op-ed has been cleared by the regime. Please don't take my musing as a shout-down by a loon.
If it’s reported in Newsweek, it’s not a “surprising” position. We already know which side they favor in any conflict or issue.
He does not criticize the CCP. He is free to say such things.
Is Professor Lo affiliated with the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe?
I am open minded but I hold opinions which are unpopular, so I am deemed ‘biased’.
For example - the publication is NewsWeek - which is a propaganda portal. Doesn’t mean NewsWeek has never published anything I valued, just raises an eye brow.
The two quotes below start this article off miserably, yet they are the reasons the professor views the conflict as Russia’s doom:
“First on the list is the “level of resistance and national unity shown by Ukrainians, which has until now been extraordinary.”
This is pathetic and sad, and not a reason for the belief of Russias doom. Millions have fled the Urkaine, with women and children establishing homes in other regions and not expected to return. Zelensky is simply shoveling those left in the Ukraine into the graves. They are conscripting boys and disabled old men, with one FReeper reporting they watched a conscription team abscond with a disabled 70 year old man. It’s not that the Ukrainians lacked valor or determination, but that they have died, been injured, fled, are being conscripted and under equipped. Barely familiar with a weapon, they aren’t given sufficient ammunition and then are sent to a battlefield against experienced Russian soldiers who are well equipped. The Ukrainians lack air defense so death rains down on the consrcripts above, and so more are grabbed off the streets, and Zelensky has said that all Ukrainians must expect to serve eventually, including the women.
“The second factor is the international support for Kyiv, which the academic said “remains broad,” though he acknowledged the administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky finds it wanting.”
Zelensky has said from the beginning that he needed fighter aircraft and could not win without them. Oh he he said it only takes a few months to train pilots, who speak English. Zelensky just never got what he said he needed to win. His head of military, now replaced, early on told The Economist he knew what he needed to win, and that NATO didn’t have it to give him. Their problem with lack of ammunition is well known, with NATO nations saying they have no more to give. Really - the Ukrainians are not experiencing the support they once had and will never get what they say they need, now that there’s tacit acknowledgement they are not winning.
“The third factor at play is the “nature of modern warfare,” according to Feng, who described this as a combination of “industrial might and command, control, communications and intelligence systems.””
Putin is flattening the electrical grid and much of what’s plugged into it. There is no industrial might left in the Ukraine - one of Russia’s tactics was constant electrical switching as a tactic in and of itself. Switching constantly means anything plugged into the grid, cell phones to medical equipment or manufacturing etc. - was electrically fried and must be replaced. The workforce is dead/fled. Feng points to the weakest of Ukrainian assets as proof they are winning.
“Russia’s fourth critical deficit is a lack of information among Kremlin decision-makers at the highest levels, Feng said. Trapped inside an “information cocoon,” Putin and his national security advisers don’t have ready access to accurate intelligence, limiting their capacity to fix mistakes.
Feng contrasted this with Ukraine’s “more flexible and effective” government.”
FENG has quite a sense of humor. NATO is Ukraine’s more flexible and effective government, and NATO is losing. The US pays for pensions, salaries, emergencies services in the Ukraine, I’ll put up a post that contains this information more precisely. So the US is the government of the Ukraine, as lead nation in NATO and primary funder of the war. Ask yourself if the geniuses using Biden as a puppet in the United states really epitomize governmental prowess.
Newweeks sad article is meant to prop up the push in Corrupt corners of Congress for more Ukrainian funding, because NATO ELITES, including Biden, want and need money.
Yeah, and Freepers, just keep a slice of all the advice you give so free.
New like Rope A Dope.
China and Russia are doomed to fight each other some day.
Ukrainian Mutiny, and another city falls. Eat it propagandist.
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