Honestly I feel like media and politicians have been intentionally chaotic and split with one side calling everyone not supportive a Putin loving warmonger and one side whining about the costs of supporting Ukraine. This made it possible to go either way at any point and that was the goal from day 1 if you ask me. Right now they still think they can keep a “low cost” (in comparison to sending their own ppl) forever war until their war economy is big enough.
I think that’s probably the plan, although at this point it feels like these are more of schemes rather than actual plans. They just kind of fly by the seat of their pants here. What they don’t seem to understand though is that it is an economic war more than anything else. The attrition on the front is made possible by productive forces in the rear, and from what I see is that Russia is in a vastly better position in terms of productive economy than Europe is. This whole idea of Europe creating some sort of a war economy is just fantastical. Europe lacks cheap energy to do that, and there are already huge problems in the civilian economy right now which is what’s leading to public unrest across Europe. Diverting even more resources to producing weapons is only going to worsen the social crisis.
Honestly I feel like media and politicians have been intentionally chaotic and split with one side calling everyone not supportive a Putin loving warmonger and one side whining about the costs of supporting Ukraine. This made it possible to go either way at any point and that was the goal from day 1 if you ask me. Right now they still think they can keep a “low cost” (in comparison to sending their own ppl) forever war until their war economy is big enough.
I think that’s probably the plan, although at this point it feels like these are more of schemes rather than actual plans. They just kind of fly by the seat of their pants here. What they don’t seem to understand though is that it is an economic war more than anything else. The attrition on the front is made possible by productive forces in the rear, and from what I see is that Russia is in a vastly better position in terms of productive economy than Europe is. This whole idea of Europe creating some sort of a war economy is just fantastical. Europe lacks cheap energy to do that, and there are already huge problems in the civilian economy right now which is what’s leading to public unrest across Europe. Diverting even more resources to producing weapons is only going to worsen the social crisis.
Maybe they bet on doing more imperialism with their own military? Apart from that Europe really looks like a head less chicken.
They don’t even have much of a military at this point.