Russia creates enemies where it had none.Yet their mental health issues are our national security problem now.
A Russian strategist’s "central claim is that the war in Ukraine is not primarily a contest over spheres of influence in Eastern Europe. It is a wider struggle over whether the West can impose its will on Russia.”
FFS. The West has no interest in imposing its will in Russia. After the Cold War the West frankly didn’t think that much about Russia before Putin got aggressive in Europe. Now we care. And rearm.
Yet Russian nukes obviously provide Russia with a level of physical security. But Putin has wrecked its conventional military making Russia more vulnerable to Chinese pressure; and risks a time of troubles inside Russia.
The strategist says Russia must go all-in to win in Ukraine as the first step to not succumbing to the West's desire to impose its will on Russia. Are the Russian people willing to go on that Viking funeral ride to defeat Ukraine's military and then go on to wage a bigger and longer war against the West? And is that course of action really going to deter China? Or will it embolden China?
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