2022.8 But the problem is that you had the Germans & the French able to blame Saakashvili &half-excuse Putin./And a lot of the Obama people were very critical of Bush's handling of Georgia,&half of them sort of believed the war was Dick Cheney's fault& he had egged on Saakashvili and some nonsense
8/22 On this day in 1968 the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia, with minimal Western reaction. Less than four years later, Nixon was in Moscow to launch detente. Many things happened in between, not least the border war between China and the USSR (March 1969)./
7/5 /No, we don't. Before Russian war on Ukraine it was disputable, but after... Just imagine we are attacked - and have to rely on some German Bundeskanzler or French President (aka "save the face of the aggressor"). We will be wiped out within hours. G-d save Nato./
That makes the timing of today’s call with Shoigu interesting. The senior official declined to go beyond a Pentagon readout, which said Austin called for a ceasefire, and added that it “wasn’t for a lack of trying” that the U.S. had not been able to talk with Russian officials.