The Russians need to learn one simple lesson: “Stay in your own back yard.”
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It is clear Vlad will take the Eastern Donbass provinces. They declared their Independence from Ukraine back in 2015. The little beggar Zelensky never wanted the Donbass, full of those “ evil ethnic Russians “.
Fact is those Donbass ethnic Russians were tired of Ukraine’s legendary corruption, money laundering, bribes.
It appears now that when the Ukie’s Donbass pocket collapses, they have no choice but to retreat back to the Dniepner river. There will be no “ epic tank battle” on the Ukie flat plains, they have very few tanks left, no fuel ( Vlad cut off the Ukies major fuel supply from Romania a few days ago), ravaged supply lines, little support vehicles left.
Zelensky will finally have to start negotiating, he will “ give” the troublesome Russian Donbass their Independence, then rebuild his flattened country for a decade ( with taxpayers money- ten percent to Joe).
The Russians need to learn one simple lesson: “Stay in your own back yard.”
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If NATO did, this war would have never happened.
The Dnieper looks to be a formidable barrier to any attacker. From either bank.
Bullshiite. This war is about oil & gas reserves. The last time we had an oppressive regime invade their neighbor over oil & gas, an international coalition kicked his ass back to Iraq.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
also:
Why Russia wants to invade Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
The Russians weren’t even interested in eastern Ukraine until oil was found there. Their interest is simply in raping that country. Russia gets 60% of its revenues from oil exports. Europe gets 40% of their oil from Russia.
In 2012 massive oil and gas reserves were found in Crimea. Crimea signed a $10 billion exploration contracts with Shell and Chevron to develop the new found oil and gas fields. These oil and gas products would compete in Europe with Russia’s oil and gas, reducing Russia’s oil revenues, which we recall amount to 60% of their total GDP. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, cancelling the contracts with Shell and Chevron.
But Ukraine still had massive reserves in, you guessed it, Donetsk and Luhansk, and other areas East of the Dnieper River. In 2019, Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited Ukraine, and soon after Ukraine awarded exploration contracts to a consortium of U.S. oil companies. Again, these oil reserves would compete in Europe with Russian oil, so Putin is invading Ukraine to shut down this latest attempt to extract Ukrainian oil and sell it in competition with Russian oil.
This explanation makes more sense to me than the “Putin feels threatened by NATO expansion” excuses for the invasion.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044221/posts?page=1#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmdSzVFSKc
If the Ukes allow some small region in the west to be its own republic, but the OIL belongs to Ukraine, do ya think Pootypoot would allow that? Nope.
Russian Air Force has been raining on the whole countryside in the last few days.
The is exactly how Clinton bombed Serbia for three straight months.
https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/29-april-russia-newly-emerged-photos-of-a-ukrainian-bayraktar