03-04-2025, 09:47 AM
i'm beginning to think putin doesn't care any more if nato gets western ukraine. sure 20 years ago he did, it was a strategic necessity. but don't you think he's been working on that problem? weapons development, short range intracontinental ballistic systems, drone shields, and the buffer territory acquisition of the eastern oblasts -- i don't think he gives a hoot any more, despite what he's saying for strategic purposes. it's basically poland get a few hundred miles wider. no big deal, the southern ports are secure and it's basically just that much less pipeline that russia will have to defend. so maybe look for him to "compromise" on a few decades injunction rather than permanent? that dovetails nicely with the squabblegames europe wants to play as well as the ukusa bonepicking. let ukusa keep ukraine (what's left) on the edge of tinderbox, haha, so as to bullyhand germany et al, and if they want to play extractionist colonial civilwar games, well so what all the good stuff's in the east anyway, and putin is used to taking the heat for mi6 deflection. might even slip in a few ops of his own, hohoho.
