Respuestas al mensaje #4,829

They're hoping to weaken the Ukraine enough to turn it into another Belarus in the next 10-15 years Today Belarus is a province of Russia in...

One last hurrah for the dictator before the country spirals into destruction.

They want to install a pro-Russian regime in Ukraine that will not join NATO or the UN. They want Ukraine to be a buffer state.

Desperation. Russia has to reclaim some of its lost borders while they still have enough of a population before their crumbling demographics and...

1. The baltic countries joining NATO was really bad, but Ukraine joining is an existential threat to them. You can argue it really isn't, but that...

Reducing it to just GDP is not entirely helpful, guess what happens to that German GDP when they no longer have Russian oil and gas to run...

>muh GDP Doesn't matter. Russia may have a smaller GDP than Italy or Canada, but Russia is orders of magnitude more powerful than either of those...

On the one hand, if russia does nothing in allowing an anti russian militaey alliance (nato) to creep up right to their border, they will lose the...

Striking while they still have power and nationalism on their side. Putin's not a young man, and I don't think he's really announced someone to...

I doubt it's that. Ukraine going into NATO puts US Military within striking distance of Moscow with little warning available to Russia. Secondly...