[A strike]

“The fear is of a Europe in Russia’s grasp.”

Yeah. Right. Sure. That’s what Putin was going for.

Do you hear yourself ?

[Zhang Fei]

[Yeah. Right. Sure. That’s what Putin was going for.

Do you hear yourself ?]

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Imperialists don’t stop until they are stopped. And they are strengthened by the fruits of their conquests. The conquest of Ukraine will give him an additional 45m people to feed his war machine, and make it a much shorter march to the Atlantic.

After Munich, when Hitler lied about his ambitions with the line “This is my last territorial demand in Europe”, he wasn’t doing anything exceptional. Conquerors lie all the time about their outsized ambitions. They’re not recreational liars - they lie to make it more difficult for future targets of those ambitions to unite against them, before it’s too late. Far easier to defeat your enemies one at a time, combine your resources with theirs, and move on to the next target.