RE:Nothing to do with trading but...Nailbiter1 wrote: Those of you with military backgrounds,
what are your views on what Russia is doing and how hard should response be?
VERY large question.
In the 1960’s the Soviet bloc had about 60 divisions (10-12k men each) against NATO forces in Europe. They had nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons (as did we). We would have been hard pressed to stop them in the forward defences along the river barriers. It was a different time, for example all the major bridges and interchanges were prepped for demolition. Armed fighters planes roving the skies.
Had they succeeded and breached the North German plain or the southern Fulda Gap it could have brought an American nuclear response as promised by them.
Mercifully it did not happen.
Sanctions and dialogue are the only realistic solutions.
For now reste calme, but don’t back down.