Reddit? Seriously, you might as well have stated Russell Brand or Alex Jones as your source. You are aware of what troll farms do right?
Look at this.
Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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Look at this.
Based on the Caspian Report, the Russians don't have to push all the way to the Carpathians. A softer approach is to take all land to the east of Dnieper itself. Taking over all of Ukraine means having to deal with an insurgency. It's better to use the rest of Ukraine as a neutral buffer state.
And Moldova can act as a buffer state. Keeping Transnistria boiling is more than enough to prevent their entry into NATO.
Taking the Baltics and Poland will remain a dream. At the very least Russia needs to climb up again to the ranks of highly advanced economies with Western standards of living before even thinking about it.
And Moldova can act as a buffer state. Keeping Transnistria boiling is more than enough to prevent their entry into NATO.
Taking the Baltics and Poland will remain a dream. At the very least Russia needs to climb up again to the ranks of highly advanced economies with Western standards of living before even thinking about it.
Evidently the person who coined the phrase - Truth is the first casualty of war - wasn't an Irishman. In fact the Irish have never heard of this phrase ever as has been evidenced here plenty of times too numerous to document.
Ergo , the Irishification of the Western media & it's audiences is a fact of life & not a laughing matter, as funny as it sounds.
The only good thing about this that NATO expansion will happen in Northern Europe with Finland and Sweden.
A stronger NATO in Europe thanks to these 2 nations and a weakened Russia will mean USA can put more efforts in Pacific leaving the European front to Europeans.
The destruction of the column by military equipment of the Ukrainian Army by K-52 helicopters. Despite the threat of MANPADS, helicopters literally riddled armored vehicles and anti-aircraft installations of Ukraine with unguided S-8 missiles at close range.
Dude, I could post that I saw the Starship Enterprise emerge through a time portal on reddit. It is not a legitimate news source.
Don't be too sure about that. Putin is a redoubtable foe. There are good chances that there will be a LIC in occupied Ukraine which the West will have an unbearable itch to scratch. Once that happens, Putin having nothing to lose can open up insurgency movements in E Europe. What's more there's nothing to prevent him from extending support to Islamists across the world or intervene just to thwart Western agenda like he did in Syria. This is just the beginning. The West seems to think they have the measure of Putin by an economic & social boycott of Russia . They aren't aware just how wrong they are.
Baltics and Poland are in NATO, any move on them WW3.
Russia has no end game here. Afghanistan was the US supplying a rag-tag bunch via Pakistan from the other side of the world with a few Stingers, with no real interest other than opposing Soviet aggression. Ukraine is the US, UK, CAN, AUS, NZ and EU all supplying Ukraine from next door, with a lot more equipment, with a real interest. It will never ever end until Russia is out of Ukraine, never. If Russia are still there in 2050, then the war will still be going, and after 2024 that will be without European oil and gas revenue. Putin will be dead long before the war ends if Russia stay.
As for Transnistria, Ukraine are happy to retreat into it, occupying it as they do, if there is a need (which seems very unlikely at present), and Moldova will help them.
The man is a disgrace even by Irish standards of stupid & insipid which had far too low a bar to begin with.
Now who's going to explain to resident autistic here that US, UK, KSA ,UAE, Iran, China, practically the whole of OIC including Pakistan & many other Western countries contributed in men money & material to the Afghanistan war?
Eastern Europe will not be a problem.
Balkans will be. NATO in its bid for expansion will want to get Kosovo and Bosnia under its fold.
The moment that happens Serbia will wreak havoc in Bosnia and Herzegovina. And some current NATO members will enable it. If Russia plays it's cards well in Balkans it will get somewhere.
Otherwise it's largely done and dusted.
Their oil reserves are enough to replace the ME too. All they have to do is double production and provide oil at a flat rate that makes them enough profit, which is $60-70 and keep prices so low that the ME's economy is taken out.
Basically, you can't take only half, it's all or nothing. Even the ME has to be made into a pariah region for that to happen, alongside Russia. And there's enough room to achieve that since the GCC is composed of monarchies and are easy targets for sanctions. It explains why the Saudis are thinking of switching away from USD. After Yemen and Ukraine, it's clear to them as well that the US won't protect them.
Putin's former chief economic advisor says Russia would likely halt the Ukraine war 'within a month or two' if the West slapped a full embargo on Russian oil and gas
In an interview with the BBC, Andrei Illarionov predicted Russia would be spared economic devastation because of the strength of its energy exports.
That makes no sense, why would they have to replace the Middle East too?
The US absolutely can protect them, but there are rules as regards engagement of a country with 2,000 nuclear warheads. In Ukraine Russia's bluff works because it's close enough to their doorstep for there to be doubt that the bluff is fake, in Saudi Arabia that is clearly not the case. Yemen is not the US's job. And, as with Ukraine, only a small section has troubles.
You have to play the game tactically, at the moment Putin's Russia is killing itself. If Putin could leave and hang on to power at this stage he would, but he knows his days are numbered if he kills 20,000 Russian soldiers for a loss, by continuing the war he hangs on for longer, but there is a limit to how long he can do that. At this stage he has already lost, he's basically moving his king back and forth for a while before the inevitable checkmate.
Take the Chechen Wars, the population of Chechnya is only 1.4m, and it was in Russia, and the Chechens had no help, that took him >13,000 lives and two several year wars and 15 years total plus insurgencies. He's up against 40m here with lots of help. Because of Georgia and the annexation of Crimea he thought Ukraine would be a pushover, but as Arnie would say, "he thought wrong."
Another effect is that Russia appears properly weak militarily. They lost the battle of Kiev quite embarrassingly and less of their neighbours are likely to be scared of them now. They also lost all their remaining apologists and sympathisers within the EU. They've destroyed themselves militarily, economically and politically in one ill-conceived and unnecessary move.
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The Russian military delivered more than 10 tons of humanitarian aid to local residents. Not a single store is open in the district after the Ukrainian army began shelling from Mykolayiv at the end of March. People received food packages, which include cereals, pasta, canned meat and fish:
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Demand for rubles is growing in Melitopol, which has come under Russian control, at some gas stations it is already possible to pay with the Russian ruble:
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It was a Russian drone.
Serbia is looking to join the EU, so it would do exactly nothing. Sensible countries are more concerned with their economy than pretending it's still the 20th century.
Accession of Serbia to the European Union - Wikipedia
Try buying online with rubles and you will find the true exchange rate.Demand for rubles is growing in Melitopol, which has come under Russian control, at some gas stations it is already possible to pay with the Russian ruble:
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🇷🇺⚡Demand for rubles is growing in Melitopol, which has come under Russian control, at some gas stations it is already possible to pay with the Russian ruble
India weighs joining IEA emergency oil release plan to calm prices - Times of India
India Business News: NEW DELHI: India is considering joining the International Energy Agency's second initiative this year for a co-ordinated release of 120 million barrel.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com