If NATO collapses over this, it will be a win for Putin, and for us.
I’d wager that Russian infrastructure for its people is a lot more tenuous and fragile than one might normally assume. A modest investment in destroying that infrastructure on a national scale might bring so much misery that Putin’s power us threatened and his attention forced away from conducting war in Ukraine. Failed food crops on a national scale, and lasting years...
Key supply chain interruptions and disruptions, sabotage of pipelines that sell oil to China and India, over and over...
Mysterious plague-like illness outbreaks, shortages of medicines. Sunk oil tankers and other ships of all kinds. Asymmetric warfare cuts both ways. Color revolution promoted and funded within..
“If NATO collapses over this, it will be a win for Putin, and for us.”
Putin stated, “The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest tragedy in geopolitical history”.
Abutting NATO applicants, Sweden and Finland, were listening to Putin and EVEN TODAY reject your assertion.
NATO was going to collapse - or more likely whimper out - in November 2021 if Putin hadn’t invaded Ukraine.
If we could expand it to a collapse of the UN, it would be another win for us.