Russia says Ukraine talks hit 'dead end', Poland warns of risk of war

Reuters ^ | January 13, 2022 | Thomas Escritt and Tom Balmforth

[Does so]

“Inept” should cover it...

[Does so]

The end of Pax Americana?

[MercyFlush]

Romania has no say over Moldova which is an independent and foolishly nonaligned country that the Russians consider to be theirs.

[MercyFlush]

That’s quite a pessimistic analysis. Where did you come by all of these ideas?

[Az Joe]

Why are you against Russia?

[Az Joe]

Good point

[Az Joe]

The second part of the doctrine said that the United States would stay out of European activities. This included actions in established colonies. It provided assurance to Europe that as long as the Americas were not threatened, the United
States would not threaten European countries. In other words, the United States promised to stay out of Europe’s business as long as Europe stayed out of U.S.
business.

https://www.joliet86.org/assets/1/6/Monroe_Doctrine_Article___Questions.pdf

[Wallace T.]

The Russians may want to collapse the eastern flank of NATO by offering countries like Romania a carrot to abandon their current NATO/EU alignment. If the Russian Army defeats the Ukrainian Army and NATO proves inefficient in defeating the Russian incursion into Ukraine, Romania, Poland, and Slovakia may decide to make deals with Putin. Remember that Hitler's successes in annexing Austria and Sudetenland into the Third Reich moved Italy and Romania onto the German side. Hitler was willing not to press demands for the South Tyrol in order to induce Mussolini into an alliance.

Putin is not Hitler or Napoleon, but more like Bismarck, an older politician willing to make a concession or two to achieve his goals of restoring the empire of the Tsars and the Soviets. If that means not pressing for western Ukraine or Moldova and letting Poland, Romania, and Slovakia have a chance to regain lands lost to Stalin, that may be a price worth paying.

All these assumptions depend on (1) the ability of the Russians to defeat the Ukrainians; (2) ineffective NATO response based on the decadent condition of Western militaries; and (3) assuming a simultaneous attack by China on Taiwan, an American decision to focus on protecting Taiwan.

[mac_truck]

Just another day at the beach in Ukraine.

[MercyFlush]

Have you ever been to Romania? Do you know any Romanians? I have and I do and trust me they hate the Russians perhaps as much as they hate the Moslems. They want NOTHING to do with the Russians if it means those bastards setting foot in their country again to rape it.