Kremlin losing the South Caucasus and threatening Azerbaijan with new “special military operation”
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If Putin wants to be associated with Europe then there is a chance we will get something. Russia is European after all. But he does not need us or Europe at all. China and India alone are enough to buy his resources and keep him plenty rich. He never needs Europe. He never needs the US. In two countries he has access to a third of the world. And they too have friends. The Brick nations now count over twenty. And many of them are very large as well.
Russia can play in that sphere happily. Yes you have to fight for whats yours. But that is very true with Europe and the US as well. We have proved to the world that we are a very unreliable and demanding ally. China and India are predictable.
And now that Russia has gone through the pain of separating itself from the dollar, they really have no need to go back.
They have proven to themselves and the world that life outside the dollar exists and can support life as well as happiness.
Putin will end the war on his terms, because he can. We have very little to offer him.
Kremlin losing the South Caucasus and threatening Azerbaijan with new “special military operation”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4334347/posts