Putin is daydreaming about restoring the USSR and lives in 1980s world. You guys seem to have a weird idea of „success“. If going from a space faring superpower to China‘s gas supplier is success then I don‘t know what failure ist.The plan is liquid. If Ukraine falls in 3 days and nothing else gets involved, that's the plan. If all of Europe goes in and they all get drained into irrelevence but it takes a few more years, that's the new plan.
Writing "incompetency" is incompetence. The Russian economy rising while depleting Europe and the power of the dollar in favor of a Chinese partnership is the new plan, one that Washington fears.
Ding ding ding, this wins stupidest comment you've ever written. What source compelled you to think this? Who said NATO was thinking of disbanding? The only time I've ever heard of NATO possibly disbanding is if Trump invades Greenland.
And he prevented Ukraine from joining. Ukraine is a much more significant country and a big piece of the Slavic world, which is Russia's territory. Finland and Sweden are not terribly relevent.
I knew you would make this foolish comparison. If Russia wanted Zelensky dead, you really don't think they can track his location and off him with a hypersonic missile strike? It's pointless to do so. The US got almost nothing. The US doesn't control Venezuelan land; there are bandits now executing people with US passports in Venezuela, and US oil companies call the country uninvestible, even when Trump says he'll reimburse their costs. Russia got land, an economic and military boost, the weakening of the EU, and the Russia nation properly realigned with China to the detriment of the USD and Euro.
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A gas station with nukes is terrifying; no country in Europe or the US dare declare war on this nuclear gas station even when they say all democracy relies on the protection of Ukraine.
Common sense. It has no chance of handling China by itself; the most powerful force that can help it is the EU, with a common interest of preserving Western power. Now the Western alliance is without its left arm while China just gained a hell of a wingman in Russia.
That's because Trump is retarded and kicking his own dogs out of frustration that China's got him beaten at every turn. All of the EU is dedicated to preserving Western dominance and keeping the US at the helm; Trump is turning his knife on them. That's how much brain damage he took from China's repeated beatings in 2 trade wars, a tech war and the rare earth liver blow that folded him.
Europe and the Middle East were indeed becoming irrelevant for Americans from Obama administration. US started calling itself a pacific power and asked Europeans to carry their share of defending themselves because it‘s too expensive for the US to spend money into a part of the world that they don‘t consider as critical. Even after annexing Crimea, Germany was still buying gas from Russia and Russia didn‘t have to dangerously depend on China because they had options. In the end of the day, it‘s lose-lose for both the EU and Russia. Of course a Chinese would like what‘s happening because Russia has essentially become China‘s bitch but Russians themselves would habe other opinions. It is clear as day that this war has been a failure and the only thing that keeps this war going is Putin‘s ego and reputation.
Ukraine joining NATO wouldn‘t have done a goddamm thing as Estonia, Poland, Lithuania and now Finnland and Sweden joined. If Russia didn‘t cause trouble, the US would have eventually scaled down its European assetd and would habe moved to the pacific where the real game is. This is assuming that a corrupt country like Ukraine would have even been accepted into NATO and the EU. They had a bad reputation before this war started. Russia caused the very thing that they feared to happen.
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