Great information. Cease fires in between Isreal and Palestine was in place during October 7th invasion plus Ukraine and Russia had a cease fire in place when Russia attached. As you so ably stated, cease fires allow time to reload. The history behind this is very enlightening.
Thank you for reading my commentary - you are correct, cease fires are rarely honored unless both sides are convinced that violating the cease fire will result in total defeat. Also, it should be noted that there are always third parties who will violate cease fires under a “false flag” with the intent of starting a war that they believe will benefit them.
Excellent read! Covers a broad insight of the history of both countries and the motives that drive this war. I have realized over the years that all wars usually occur for combinations of a few factors. Power driven egos, greed for monetary gain of folks supplying war materials or political powers receiving kick backs for keeping them going. My irrational solution to stopping wars before they start would be having only the old politicians, power brokers and greed mongers be the only ones to actually go into combat. Then that old saying, “the talk is the easy part” would make for short, quick endings. My other thought is war shouldn’t be fought on battlefields, especially during current time, but just immediately use whatever means necessary to wipe all government officials of any country that is the first aggressor. I don’t recall that ever happening in any war in my lifetime. I was in a conversation with a guy in the Carver group who flew fighter jets in Nam, then worked in the war college afterwords, about why we didn’t try to take out the leaders of the opposing government 1st and his reply was that would be unethical. Guess that explained how guys that do war plans think.
Good point - should’ve asked the guy if it was ethical to draft a bunch of 18 year olds and send them into a meat grinder just because some old guys wanted to use them as pawns in their chess game.
I didn’t make this point clear in my commentary, but I think that one of the main catalysts that started this war was in 2014 when the “Russian friendly” president of Ukraine was deposed, Russia became worried that it would lose access to Crimea’s ports on the Black Sea, which caused their immediate action to take control of Crimea. In one sense that is not much different to Trump’s fear that China was taking control of the Panama Canal.
Great research on the strategic value of Ukraine’s natural resources and value to Russia.Never saw that comment about WW 4 before—-Chilling. Tks for a good read. Kevin.
Great information. Cease fires in between Isreal and Palestine was in place during October 7th invasion plus Ukraine and Russia had a cease fire in place when Russia attached. As you so ably stated, cease fires allow time to reload. The history behind this is very enlightening.
Thank you for reading my commentary - you are correct, cease fires are rarely honored unless both sides are convinced that violating the cease fire will result in total defeat. Also, it should be noted that there are always third parties who will violate cease fires under a “false flag” with the intent of starting a war that they believe will benefit them.
Excellent read! Covers a broad insight of the history of both countries and the motives that drive this war. I have realized over the years that all wars usually occur for combinations of a few factors. Power driven egos, greed for monetary gain of folks supplying war materials or political powers receiving kick backs for keeping them going. My irrational solution to stopping wars before they start would be having only the old politicians, power brokers and greed mongers be the only ones to actually go into combat. Then that old saying, “the talk is the easy part” would make for short, quick endings. My other thought is war shouldn’t be fought on battlefields, especially during current time, but just immediately use whatever means necessary to wipe all government officials of any country that is the first aggressor. I don’t recall that ever happening in any war in my lifetime. I was in a conversation with a guy in the Carver group who flew fighter jets in Nam, then worked in the war college afterwords, about why we didn’t try to take out the leaders of the opposing government 1st and his reply was that would be unethical. Guess that explained how guys that do war plans think.
Good point - should’ve asked the guy if it was ethical to draft a bunch of 18 year olds and send them into a meat grinder just because some old guys wanted to use them as pawns in their chess game.
I didn’t make this point clear in my commentary, but I think that one of the main catalysts that started this war was in 2014 when the “Russian friendly” president of Ukraine was deposed, Russia became worried that it would lose access to Crimea’s ports on the Black Sea, which caused their immediate action to take control of Crimea. In one sense that is not much different to Trump’s fear that China was taking control of the Panama Canal.
Great research on the strategic value of Ukraine’s natural resources and value to Russia.Never saw that comment about WW 4 before—-Chilling. Tks for a good read. Kevin.
Thank you! I should’ve added that History tells us that peace is temporary at best!