if Ukraine gets missiles capable of precision strikes on military targets in Moscow, should they?
if Ukraine gets missiles capable of precision strikes on military targets in Moscow, should they?
And folk keep thinking the gop gonna have a red wave come midterms
no Roosky money, no cyber attacks, no help from the GRU, no Russian bots, no NRA stimulus(they are broke)… looks like another Blue wave to me… GOP can’t function without cheating and all their cheats getting exposed left and right
my idea isn't that they wanted to annex ukraine, what i said was that they always just wanted the most valuable parts of ukraine: the ports in the south and gas fields in the east. talk of nato was just for their useful idiots to have some justification however flimsy to argue with. they don't care about being surrounded by nato because that's gonna happen anyway, this invasion will result in NATO being right outside st petersburg (250 miles to be exact). taking ukraine's ability to compete with them on the natural gas market and making it yours was the goal, that's why they don't care about destroying the country because what they care about is underground.
you're bugging.
Putin absolutely wanted to annex all of Ukraine until he realized he couldn't.
I def agree with the natural resources argument but I do disagree on the NATO element. The Nordic countries peaceful entry into NATO might not go as seamlessly as you're putting it. That magically boundary has been a 'thing' for Russia since the Warsaw Pact and it only took a vacation in the 90's cuz the SU fell. I don't think its logical to think a country would welcome their enemy getting closer and closer to their border. Resources are the biggest draw here but security really is right behind that.
I'd imagine an entirely different gameplay if he wanted to annex. Its been almost 10 years since he went into the breakaway regions and he still hasn't annexed them. IMO his game plan was to bring Ukraine fully back into his sphere of influence.
US shouldn't have a say since they are not a signatory.
seems like they’ve hit a roadblock
The Hague can’t do anything to Russia at the end of the day