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==Reaction to Donald Trump implying Russia is a "[[paper tiger]]"==

==Reaction to Donald Trump implying Russia is a "[[paper tiger]]"==

[[President Trump]] had urged Zelensky to make a deal with [[Russia]], specifically [[Vladimir Putin]] [[Ukrainian]] [[dictator]] [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] refused. Instead, Zelesnsky and his team first told retired General [[Keith Kellogg]], Trump’s special emissary to Ukraine, that Ukraine was "[[win]]ning" the [[war]] and would retake all lost territory. Zelensky also claimed that his [[drone]] attacks on Russia have ruined the Russian [[economy]] and sooner or later would force Russia to leave Ukraine. President Trump did the easy thing: he agreed with Zelensky, blasted Russia and Putin, said Russia was a "[[paper tiger]]" and that its economy would soon collapse.<ref>https://weapons.substack.com/p/trumps-truth-social-manifesto-on</ref> Prof. Mearsheimer was asked by [[Lt. Col. Danial Davis]] for his impressions:

[[President Trump]] had urged Zelensky to make a deal with [[Russia]], specifically [[Vladimir Putin]] [[Ukrainian]] [[dictator]] [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] refused. Instead, Zelesnsky and his team first told retired General [[Keith Kellogg]], Trump’s special emissary to Ukraine, that Ukraine was "[[win]]ning" the [[war]] and would retake all lost territory. Zelensky also claimed that his [[drone]] attacks on Russia have ruined the Russian [[economy]] and sooner or later would force Russia to leave Ukraine. President Trump did the easy thing: he agreed with Zelensky, blasted Russia and Putin, said Russia was a "[[paper tiger]]" and that its economy would soon collapse.<ref>https://weapons.substack.com/p/trumps-truth-social-manifesto-on</ref> Prof. Mearsheimer was asked by [[Lt. Col. Daniel Davis]] for his impressions:

[[File:Paper tiger.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Paper Tiger in [[Chinese]] New Year celebrations.]]

[[File:Paper tiger.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Paper Tiger in [[Chinese]] New Year celebrations.]]

{{Cquote|For those people who think [[Russia]]'s a [[paper tiger]], and there appear to be a number of people who are thinking in those terms these days, I think that what we ought to do is fly them over to [[Kiev]], put them in a uniform, put them on a truck, and then send them up to the front lines. Now, according to the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', it's not clear they'll get to the front lines because that [[paper tiger]] is now tearing apart the lines of [[Ukrainian]] positions. And it's very hard for the Ukrainians to get troops from the rear up to the forward edge of the battle area. But let's assume that they get up there. Let them spend a couple weeks fighting against the [[Russian]]s. And if they're still alive after a couple weeks, they can tell us whether or not they think the Russians are a [[paper tiger]] or not. My guess is, that those who survive that scenario will tell us very clearly that the Russians are not a [[paper tiger]] and that the Ukrainians are at a great disadvantage and have their hands full dealing with this massively armed steamroller that's coming at them.<ref>https://youtu.be/oSPDBWDeYkY</ref>}}

{{Cquote|For those people who think [[Russia]]'s a [[paper tiger]], and there appear to be a number of people who are thinking in those terms these days, I think that what we ought to do is fly them over to [[Kiev]], put them in a uniform, put them on a truck, and then send them up to the front lines. Now, according to the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', it's not clear they'll get to the front lines because that [[paper tiger]] is now tearing apart the lines of [[Ukrainian]] positions. And it's very hard for the Ukrainians to get troops from the rear up to the forward edge of the battle area. But let's assume that they get up there. Let them spend a couple weeks fighting against the [[Russian]]s. And if they're still alive after a couple weeks, they can tell us whether or not they think the Russians are a [[paper tiger]] or not. My guess is, that those who survive that scenario will tell us very clearly that the Russians are not a [[paper tiger]] and that the Ukrainians are at a great disadvantage and have their hands full dealing with this massively armed steamroller that's coming at them.<ref>https://youtu.be/oSPDBWDeYkY</ref>}}