Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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This helps Europe to make the right decisions. For example, Germany's influence was bad on energy, Germany was preventing nuclear energy from being part of the solution to global warming, they can't do that anymore. They have also realised the weakness of their military and are about to try to remedy this.
Which one?
If you meant Russia, you're wrong; Russia has been our enemy for the last 15 years, so it's nothing new. It's just that it has stopped being a one-sided affair where Russia attacks us while we try to befriend them. Russia is a mafia country: it only respects strength and pecking order. The only way to get Russia to no longer be our enemy is to make it very, very, very clear to them that they are far below us with no hope of catching up.
Germany should have had self-awareness right from the beginning. The only good thing coming out of this is Germany will militarise, but it will also get poorer at the same time. Anyway I think they will choose hydrogen over nuclear power.
If you see getting Germany to change its mind over this as a victory, then it's a Pyrrhic victory. This was most definitely not worth the cost.
You can replace "Russia" with any rival country and it will sound the same. Read the same post by replacing Russia with China. It's just a talking point.
I believe setting priorities is more important than burying relations at once on a permanent basis. China's paying for it vis-a-vis India.
The US did it right, the EU did it wrong.
They need to stop mollycoddling and take on kiev first, no point in carpet bombarding cities in south. They are biting the tail instead of head.
Why in the world are russians helping joker destroy all the cities in south ? Unless there is significant damage in the north which ukraine considers their territory this war will simply drag on. Russian tactics in this war is absolutely baffling , they cant co-ordinate, cant cut of enemy supply , dint mobilize in time and worst they bomb the cities they want to keep.
No, the problem is not what Germany chooses for itself as an energy source, the problem is that it forces others to do the same by going through the "Europe" level. Thus France has gradually destroyed its nuclear excellence through Germanic ideology. We can now reverse the trend and this is very important. But that was only one example, there are many areas where Germany's action was harmful and where they have suffered an electric shock !
Therefore it is essential that this war does not end until it puts pay to Putin's ideas and all similar ideas within the Russian establishment.
He's very good at that for some reason.I think we have to look at it the other way round: Putin has made some new enemies.
Because he is ethnically cleansing the areas he wants to keep. But aside from that, he has no real plan right now. The plan was that Ukraine would not fight back much and the war would be over quickly. Now he knows that is impossible and wishes he never started anything, but he cannot stop for fear of the chopping block. His only way out is to try force a deal that he might be able to sell back home, but nobody is going to give him one because it would allow him to continue in power and pose a danger later.
no jokers in chess, we will know who is bluffing when all the cards are revealed.
They assumed they will take the south quickly, 'cause apparently the UAF won't put up a fight. The Russians simply made a serious mistake.
Anyway, the Russians need to deal with the south first 'cause the UAF is busy targeting civilians in the region. This is how the UAF has protected Kiev from Russian attacks in fact, by being brutal to the Russian speakers in the south.
The alternative is to just expand their military to a size large enough to do both, but they will need more time for that. I believe they will take the south first, the Donbas and then Dnipro and the rest of Zapo and then concentrate on Kharkiv. It's difficult to predict what they will do beyond that. They will either concentrate on Odessa or they could deal with everything left of the river or both. I don't think they will do much to the rest of Ukraine, it will be a meaningless waste of men and resources to take a country that obviously hates them.
France's nuclear plans were ambitious even before the war. So Germany is just an excuse. This war has merely solidified existing French plans.
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In any case, the sanctions were excessive, it should have been a lot more softer. The Russians will now simply cut production, artificially jack up prices and sell to others anyway, making a profit while still selling lesser than before. All this did is hurt the West's relations with the Third World, while also making the EU weaker in the process. Germany had decided to rework its plan as soon as Russia invaded, the sanctions don't help.