“In a stunningly unforeseen geopolitical development, Russia has *significantly* demilitarized NATO.”
I’m almost thinking that’s why they dragged on the war so long. They knew if NATO could be demilitarized, then they would be in a better position for concessions, some of which will likely go beyond Ukraine.
There’s an old adage in the Chess world: “Don’t play against Russians, you’ll lose”.
“They knew if NATO could be demilitarized, then they would be in a better position for concessions, some of which will likely go beyond Ukraine.”
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The concession beyond Ukraine which Russia wants and has always wanted is a new European Securities Agreement to replace the “rules based international order” that we put into effect (and which we make the rules for..:-) when we became the ONLY superpower.