... it he desired most - Crimea. Russia was concerned that the new... working on returning Crimea to Russia". After that GRU and FSB... USA was plotting to weaken Russia - it may well have - but...
... building critical business relationships with Russia in the expectation this might...
... stronger logistics. Your assumption that Russia can slog it out indefinitely...
While I can understand Russia placing a very high value ...
... expansion of NATO that threatened Russia as it was the economic... world, one could have imagined Russia following the same path - certainly...
... causes. In the case of Russia, Zeihan predicted in his 2014... was expecting Putin to tilt Russia progressively toward Europe, and engagement.... Putin assumed absolute power in Russia, and now he is solely...
... according to them part of Russia and therefore it is the... Ukrainians who have invaded Russia by their mere existence. The... democratic, peace-loving, people of Russia to restore and resettle. And...
... take me there - everything in Russia was just that much more...
... ambivalent history - and one that Russia has never confronted and reconciled... this news item from 2015: Russia’s only Gulag memorial is... Source: Grani.ru Perm-36, Russia’s only Gulag memorial, has...
... was hopeful Putin might lead Russia into the modern world, but...
Let me know if you can spot any of your favorite authoritarian non-neoliberal countries on this list: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-50-best-countries-to-live-in.html (There a lots of such lists online - Russia does not appear on any of them.)
... out the small matter of Russia invading and annexing Crimea at...
Exactly. If Russia removed all of it's troops ... converse - Ukraine invading and bombing Russia being exceedingly unlikely in the...
.... They would stimulate pacifism in Russia as well if they could...
... see the nuance in his Russia position. I would have said...
... incompetence a direct conflict between Russia and NATO would quickly degenerate... would most likely result in Russia using nukes as a desperate... not to attack and threaten Russia itself, but to destabilise the...
Many of these guys will have come from relatively isolated or deprived parts of Russia. It is not the sons of the elites and educated that Putin is pushing into the slaughter house. I'm not up for scoffing at their ignorance and fears either.
... the list of nations that Russia would have to absorb in...
... return of territories gained by Russia. Interesting you should choose to... invasion as 'territory gained'. As Russia will, rightly in my opinion...
... conclusions: We categorically condemn Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine... the United States and Russia risks potential nuclear weapons ...such as regime change in Russia, which cuts off possibilities...dramatically. Just this week Russia signs up to a formal...
It ain't Russia who is in talks with ...
Bradbury is a loose cannon. He's basically describing Soviet Russia.
... for not intervening sooner when Russia annexed Crimea, or even earlier...
... together you get 85% blaming Russia - but of course the overwhelming... 82% said the same of Russia. Spot the hilarious fuck up...
... we can hope for. With Russia decaying into a larger more...
... avoiding placing any responsibility on Russia or Putin. For instance it... that the same number for Russia is 85% and a glance... of Ukrainians point to Putin's Russia bearing the largest part of...
... Europe made with respect to Russia. And as for the nuclear... returning all those nukes to Russia in the 90's.
... differences are of course that Russia is invading Ukraine with the...
.... But for some unspecified reason Russia gets a free pass with...
... it, highly vulnerable to disruption. Russia had Finland exactly where they...
... be sceptical, not least because Russia has turned itself into a... has already invaded. This is Russia’s situation: it has gravely...
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