“Russia doesn’t have a backyard.”
I think your bunch just found out that assumption is DEAD WRONG, and their backyard is likely bigger than you wish it was.
BobL that doesn’t even make any sense.
As usual, it sounds pro-Russia and anti-West but can you translate it?
It’s a bit smaller now according to rumors from Moldova.
Moldova has allegedly quit the CIS pointing out that in thirty years of membership all they’ve got out of it is a massive munitions dump, a planted Russian presence that won’t leave however nicely they’re asked to, and perennial bouts of Muscovy fuel blackmail.
Thought experiment: how would you describe the last three months where Finland has joined NATO, China has come off the fence to call Russia the aggressor, Putin’s been roundly mocked by a Eurovision song, Prighozin has failed to take bakhmut and is cutting loose, Erdogan is facing a runoff with a pro European rival, Moldova has announced it’s leaving the CIS, and attempts to replace Belarus’ potato faced puppet with a more compliant stooge?
All part of a very very very very very very very cunning plan that’s not so much seven dimensional as trans multiversal in its complexity?