Blowhard blows hard to State run media. While I don’t doubt that there are people within Russia that want to see a further invasion of Europe, I strongly suspect that many of the major power players in Russia understand exactly how far fetched such an invasion would be. No matter how rosy of a picture his generals are likely painting for him, Putin can’t help but notice that Kyiv is not currently under Russian control. And the Russian military structure likely knows that they are really not ready to take on all of NATO at once. At the same time, it’s always possible that Putin will face internal pressures to escalate. So, NATO needs to be ready, which sadly means yet more wealth thrown away in keeping humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
This is starting to look like a “get a second term by bombing the shit out of something” preparation. I’m almost behind it if it means we don’t see a Trump win, but it’s certainly predictable as fuck.
That’s a fucking dumb ally. The thing that made early Hitler appeasement so fucking insidious is that Hitler kept coming to the table saying “this is the last thing, guys” in a believable enough manner that people scarred by wwi accepted it - you never want to be seen as a crazed war monger.
well there will be a bit of formilization of the russian control of belarus but yeah then on to poland. I keep saying how its just like ww2 except germany is russian and checkosylvokia is ukraine and poland is poland.
Eh, that’s a bit of a stretch. Poland is one of the stronger militaries in Eastern Europe. If somehow Russia got out of their war in Ukraine with anything resembling a semi-intact military, they’d probably be trying to roll into either Georgia or Moldova next. I mean, more than they already are in those countries. I think if they were really going to test NATO’s mutual defense treaty (like if Trump was elected, who has repeatedly refused to affirm he would support article 5), they’d probably start with attacking a Baltic state after some heavy interference and hybrid warfare first, maybe trying to carve a land bridge to kaliningrad or “protecting russian speaking peoples” or something as an excuse.
Some of talking heads already said it about them but also about Kazakhstan and Finland. These news are for internal consumption, to look big and still kicking for the average TV consumer.
Some NATO countries recently did a first in many years coordinated strike at Ansar Allah, Yemeni rebels, to show their might for free. I think it can be an answer to that.
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