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There is no honor among thieves, as Stalin learned from trying to partner with his neighboring dictator (Hitler), to prey on weaker neighbors.
Turkey will pounce, as well. Russia is the only thing keeping back the new Ottoman Empire.
We’ll see which countries erupt in civil war first, Western Europe now that the Muslims have enough people to start a SERIOUS INSURRECTION, or Russia, where Putin is at 85% popularity (thanks to the Neocons, of course).
The Russians must be doing well on the battlefields at the moment. A sure sign of this is an increase in anti-Russian fantasying. Just sayin’.
This is laughable propaganda only an idiot could believe.
This is it!! We got the old crusty Czar now!!!
The Afghan war did not destroy the Soviet Union. Central economic planning did.
Maybe we should have a “Dead Empire Pool” and see if Russia or the U.S. collapses first.
good, I am tired of the Russians
Two weeks.
I can see Chechnya leaving but doubt that the other oblast will be allowed independence.
Texas will become an independent Republic before Tatarstan or Bashkortostan. Heck, even California will become part of Mexico before that happens.
Diane Francis should be more concerned with the USA and NATO splitting apart than Russia.
August 1991 was when the coup by the hardliners was foiled by Boris Yeltsin. Gorbachev resigned as Communist Party leader on August 24, 1991.
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Putin would be smart to pull out of Ukraine now and move his forces to secure his other possessions.
Not going to happen.
Russia will NOT collapse, because some one wants them to.
There is no motivation for the Chinese to claim some Northeast Asian territory from Russia. China benefits from the oil and natural gas resources of Siberia without directly controlling the region. The post-Soviet era has seen Chinese expansion into the "stans" of Central Asia, which had been ruled by China during the Qing dynasty. Thus the CCP has already accomplished expansion into what had been Tsarist and Soviet territory without firing a shot.
A defeat and breakup of Russia into smaller countries controlled by Western financial interests would leave China isolated and vulnerable to Western subversion, China had experience with humiliation by the West and does not want a second round. The CCP has been the primary source of fentanyl, which has caused the death of many thousands of Americans. The CCP may see this as payback for the Western powers forcing opium upon their country. In any case, China has been the primary market for Russian oil and natural gas. China and North Korea, which exists under the sufferance of Beijing, has been providing military aid to Russia in their war against Ukraine. China and Russia have engaged in joint military activities, including jointly trolling the US off the Alaska coast. Both nations have supported Iran and Communist regimes in Latin America and elsewhere. Chinese and Russian interests have been pushing French and American interests in various parts of Africa.
Chinese Russian cooperation well predates the Western sanctions. In a sense, the Cold War never really ended and the Eastern bloc and its Muslim allies have expanded their global reach while the Western democracies are deindustrializing, importing millions of unassimilable immigrants, and obsessing over climate change and sexual degeneracy.
They roll this crap out in response to Brics announcing a Gold backed digital currency. Brics member countries have 3.3b population at present, and so many others are pending approval.
The West is committed to stealing Russian frozen funds, and most of the world is running like hell from US economic orbit as credibility is destroyed for short term political gains.
No honor among thieves sure.
Our government is one of those thieves.
Russia may well continue to advance in Ukraine and may hold onto conquered territory, but then what?
No pro-Russian puppet government would survive in Ukraine without Russian occupation and that would be a permanent drain on Moscow.
Russia could occupy perhaps the eastern third of Ukraine, but how do they convince Ukraine to sign a peace deal? Wouldn’t Kiev just fortify a line at whatever point Moscow decides is as much as they can hold? Would Moscow take Kiev and then leave again just to see their puppet government fall?
How does Moscow continue to pay for all of this with continuing sanctions and a dwindling savings pool?
Trump might well cut off US aid and to hell with our reputation in the far East, but Putin still needs to stop the bleeding.
Chess master and political activist Garry Kasparov predicted the war will result in the collapse of the Russian Federation.
Give Garry Kasparov, nee Weinstein his due. (As a teen, he changed his name from his father's surname to a variant of his mother's name.) He is International Grandmaster Kasparov, former World Champion, the highest rated player of all time at his retirement from competitive play in 2005, and currently the second highest rated player of all time behind only Magnus Carlsen.
That makes him a very great chess player who dabbles in politics. Kasparov lives in the United States. He was born in Azerbaijan to an Armenian mother.