Posted on 05/26/2025 12:59:37 PM PDT by ExpatCanuck
Let’s say Russia takes over Ukraine (one of the most corrupt countries in the world)… then what? As long as Russia doesn’t go on an ethnic cleansing rampage (doubtful given their common ethnic origins), and honors the mineral agreement with the USA, why should we care?
What about Belarus?
What is to stop Russia from annexing Belarus, if Lukashenko is out of the picture?
“Russia says it wants the whole of Ukraine.”
Russia has only demanded 20 to 35 percent of Ukraine, although they do want the rest of the country not to pose a threat to them or to the Russians living there.
Russia picked the right Presidency to attack her neighbor.
When Ukraine is defeated, Russia can help CCP to feed its people.
“Will you hold this position as Russian reconstitutes the USSR one country at a time?”
Why would they? I doubt they need more land or resources. Maybe they want people who despise them under their rule, but it’s hard to understand why.
Bots will have to go pick a different anti-American cause...
“What is to stop Russia from annexing Belarus, if Lukashenko is out of the picture?”
I suspect most there would favor the annexation, so why should we interfere other than that the Neocons will be pissed as hell.
Russia lacks the personnel, finances, and combat power to occupy Ukraine. At best, Russian occupying forces and a pro-Russian Ukrainian government would be subject to persistent resistance and partisan attacks. That would make Ukraine into a money pit that diverts resources from Russia’s neglected and decaying infrastructure. There is no victory to be had for Russia in Ukraine.
“But Putin overreacted by starting a terrible and bloody war.”
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Never let a crisis go to waste...
NATO is going to drawn in with the unleashing of long range missiles and aircraft against Russia.
The US and Israel both have similar doctrines to Russia and China, which is any proxy using another countries equipment to attack will trigger a response to the country that provided the weapons.
Trump overplayed his hand. The Russians gave him the benefit of a doubt when standing down against NATOs missiles last October under Biden. Now Trump has decided to pursue the Biden missiles into Russia.
We are now in WWIII time. Russia will most likely hit NATO and US facilites across EUrope. They may knock out all the Romanian and Polish missile base infrastructure in a first strike as a warning to further missiles; accompanied by a speical strike package for Ukraine that will leave the world shocked when the Radiation doesn’t clear.
I see the Butthurt has already begun in anticipation!
Yet Putin choose to take lives as opposed to land.
Read your history books. Napoleon’s aid was sent to talk to the Russian king and was told they were planning to invade. He told Napoleon’s aid that Russia would trade land and retreat until you caught up to them and they were waiting.
Russia does not, with 1/7th of the world’s landmass, need or want land and wars with neighbors. This is western fiction, war porn.
If Russia were the only country on earth, they would have more of every resource on the planet.
The problem for the US is that England has been ruled by the same group of powerful elites since our Civil War; this group has desired to defeat Russia since the 1860s.
The EU cannot survive without colonies or taking resources from other countries. NATO was unleased to capture cheap oil. The EU cannot product for itself, even with fair trade, the necessities for a modern economy. The US is in a much better position, but we also need natural resources if not for ourselves, our allies.
We are getting close to the moment when this is settled for the next 100 years between EU and Russia; there is going to be no-man’s land where mankind can not survive. Sanctions will a thing of the past. The EU will not even be able to trade with Russia, but they will drop Russian sanctions in order to trade with Brics.
So it goes.
Ah, but Zelinski does participate in Elections. Trump just won an unfair election much to the Globalists surprise. Besides Putin has delivered for Russia kinda like Reagan did for the US, he halted the west from buying everything in Russia, so the west pivoted to Ukraine and bought everything and sold a dictator arms with the people’s money; the Ukrainian people did not vote to sell everything of value to western interests and then spent the money on arms.... This was before the conflict.
Right - so what?
One of the most corrupt countries in the world vs saintly Russia? How did Putin and his buddies amass billions? Lucky lottery numbers?
Nonsense.
1) Anyone with a brain knows this war is between Russia and Ukraine.
2) Anyone knows President Trump’s claims he could end the war on day one were to be taken with a grain of salt because #1.
3) No one with a brain will blame President Trump for walking away when peace talks fail - because #1.
Washing his hands of this war will only strengthen his credibility - both domestically, and with Europe/NATO - which is entirely based on putting America first.
In fact, his attempt at brokering peace in Ukraine has been entirely at odds with his America First agenda - and the sooner it fails the better.
Whether corrupt or not, Russia does not have the RIGHT to take over a sovereign country. The only permissible precedent is removing the regime, under an international sanction, but it certainly wouldn’t/shouldn’t be Putin’s Russia which is as corrupt.
Anyone who ever thought it was possible to prevent Russia from taking over a country on their own border, and not a NATO country at that, seriously needs to have hear heads checked. There is zero long term ability to stop this short of US resolve to fight for them, and that will also never happen.
The comparison to Afghanistan is laughable because the ability to provide military support compared to that of the mountains in the middle east makes this a joke to even consider. If Russia were to take control they would kill with reckless abandon anyone that opposed them and wouldn’t GAS about it.
Russia is an inevitable victor and that’s just the long and short of it no matter how evil Putin is. Would NATO go to war for them? No but they would for Poland. Which is why Putin won’t attack them, but he will take back as much if Ukraine as he wants.
“Anyone who ever thought it was possible to prevent Russia from taking over a country on their own border, and not a NATO country at that, seriously needs to have hear heads checked. “
Three years and three months ago, anyone saying Ukraine would last longer than two weeks would have had their heads checked.
That is entirely NOT true. In 2013 Russia staged fake elections in Crimea as an excuse to take it over. Then they staged fake protests in Donbass while positioning troops at the border and controlled the territory.
Russia is the evil empire and not ever to be trusted.
The corruption in Ukraine traces back to a half century of Russian occupation.
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