How much longer will the West allow Russia to carry on indiscriminately murdering civilians in response to the ineptitude of its armed forces, its battlefield failures and battlefield reversals before it decides to respond? And how will the West respond?
If this is correct then Nuclear weapons will be deployed, initially in the theatre of war but subsequently and quite quickly on an intercontinental basis and then we're all ****ed.
The ease with which Putin takes control of Ukraine and the extent of the involvement avoidance by NATO may well determine how emboldened Putin feels to begin to take NATO on, initially in the Baltic States and then in Romania, Bulgaria etc. His long game goal is the re-establishment of the...
Russia/Putin has been forcibly re-locating significant numbers of the ethnic Russian speaking population from Russia into their neighbouring, ex USSR, states (eg Crimea, the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine) for years with just this military intervention in mind with the justification being to...
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A bit like Johnson on a much larger scale, Putin really doesn't give a flying **** about what the rest of the world (with the exception of China) thinks and he'll carry on lying, dissembling, creating false narratives and behaving with total impunity because he can and no-one in the West...