Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine. There's no end to Russia's appetite. And that's just for starters. No way would Putin be satisfied with just recreating the Soviet Union. He wants the Russian Empire back, which included most of Poland and all of Finland. Getting Poland would bring Russia to Germany's border. Do the German doves realize what that would mean?
Moldovan romanians are the majority in 90% of Transnistria. Russians only live in the cities and even there they only have a plurality and no majority.
If a Russian neighbor shows weakness and cedes some territory, Russia comes back later for more - as seen in 2014 Ukrine.
” He wants the Russian Empire back, which included most of Poland and all of Finland. Getting Poland would bring Russia to Germany’s border. “
Well, since Stalin moved the border of Germany considerably West, a Russian Empire stopping at Pyzdry would stilll be a hundred miles short of the German border.
Isn’t it interesting that we are to be so horrified at Russia being so close, while Russia is supposed to be blase about having NATO right on the Sumy border. Not 100 miles away from it.
As a Baltic foreign minister once put it:
The Russians steal $1000 from you
You protest, and take them to court
They give back $20 and say “see, we made a concession”.
Former gory glory.
Yet the Western left works conquer all the world ideologically.
What country are you writing from?
Russia moved into Georgia as response to yet another NATO Orange revolution and coup attempt. My classmate in my foreign service training class (nearly 6 months) called me to say as a communicator he and the ambassador were going to be the only ones left in the embassy while Russia was stopped at Bridge. The coup was adverted in Georgia. My friend was literally afraid they would die because as he said, WE Fu<ked Up and Russia dealing with the situation.
Moldova is complicated situation since Russia has an entire region with a major arms and ammuniton depot - also they were in that area as a peace keeping force - NATO again bought the politicians and backed them against Russia.
Ukriane - Famously Joe Biden drew attention to his (and Obama’s corruption) when he was just the LITTLE Guy when he bragged as VP how he was holding up 1B USD unless they fired the Investagator closing in on the Administrations two key personnel (Obama/Biden corruption) back in 2014. This after the coup of 2012. Immediately after the coup the US Navy was in negotiations for the Crimera Black Sea HQ of the Russian Navy - and Russia was seeing how France and Britian were buying up the rights to all the Black Sea ports in Souther Ukraine Proper. Russia moved to secure their Black Sea Port in Crimeia. Now when Biden was the Big Guy he, his old boss, their gaggle of gays and NATO miscalculated their ethenic cleansing of Russian speaking peoples by further announcing plans to deploy the same dual use missiles in Poland into Ukraine on the Russia border - those missiles per the military tech’s could be changed from defensive warheads to offensive (either nuclear capable or conventional) in under one hour. UKRAINE WAS FOR SALE - ALL NATO/EU NATIONS GOT A CUT AT FIRESALE PRICES. The same thingt was going on in the late 90’s with Russian Business interests and Putin rose to power and put an end to the Corporate Raiders backed by the US Embassies and US/NATO.
Today, the G7 has be upshured by Blinkin as a deterrent to blocking Russia on the Battlefield and economically. BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and the original 13 members of Brics are pushing the US out of two nations in Africa.
In July Russia will send 20,000 troops to Africa. China will soon follow. Russia will also send 30,000 to Syria. The remaining newly trained of the 300,000 July graduation or 250,000 are designated to join the 500,000 reserves and join their 390,000 currently engaged in operations in Ukraine.
Again, the US led by the African and Dirty Mindless Joe have miscalculated badly. Brics is going put over 65% of the world’s population out of reach of US Markets... we were masters of the World excluding Iran, Syria and N.Korea at the beginning of this self-inflected debacle.
Our use of Ukraine to attack Russian soil has recently resulted in two US 155mm plants have explosions or fires, and one in Britan. It seems the US was trying stop Ukraine from attacking Russia Oil but now the war is spreading to the homelands of the NATO-CONS. It is fitting that one plant in PA had an accident - which many in the US attributed to woke and unqualified hires demanded by the Bite-me Administration.
July isn’t even here and Russia is already exploiting their Drone superority on the front lines.
Units facing those drones are now demanding rotation off the front lines and ther replacements are refusing to backfill the positions, resulting from the hell on the battlefield caused by drones (initially Ukraine touted their success and every Uke soldier knows how lethal they are), and the FABs.
61B - 10B for Administrative Operations; 40B to pay for already delivered assistance.................
Before the war Putin stared in a long list, the countries he wanted to write the security policies for. It was the entire Soviet Union. That means he could bully them with out worrying about NATO. That’s the whole reason they were so anxious to join NATO.