flamming_python wrote:Hannibal Barca wrote:flamming_python wrote:I'll remind everyone that with victory in the Ukraine, the destabilization of the Kiev regime (which the Bucha hoax is actually contributing to), and assuming NATO doesn't enter Western Ukraine - which is the real red-line; Russia will basically have a land-bridge to Hungary, and therefore Serbia. From there, if Croatia gets on board, it will be possible to reform Yugoslavia; Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia are not sovereign states in the proper sense of the word; the core of Yugoslavia were always Serbia and Croatia.
Greece and Bulgaria, countries with strong pro-Russian sentiments, will be emboldened and those countries can exit NATO next. Romania and Turkey will be left isolated by land from the rest of NATO, and that will be their problem.
This is really what's at stake.
Finland is an EU member already, benefits from it, is heavily anti-Russian, and has been integrated with NATO for a while now - there is nothing for Russia to play for there. If the US wants to put missiles there, Russia can respond by arming its subs with Zirkons.
You are daydreaming here. The pleague has to be stopped. No NATO on the boarders has to be the red line. Let's finish what was started, dead or alive.
No, I'm talking strategy.
The plague will be stopped, but it must be done as I say.
I strongly suspect that Finland is 'preparing to join NATO' now simply as a mechanism for diverting Russian forces from where they need to be concentrated now - which is in the Kherson and Kharkov regions preparing to cut the Donbass pocket.
Russia's initial political strategy failed. Now it has adopted a new one. But for this new one, it needs to concentrate forces where they need to be, and achieve straight victory after victory of envelopment and cauldrons while the Ukrainian military surrenders in ever greater numbers and the Kiev authorities are destabilized by their failures and despondency towards cruelty against their own people
Everything else but the Ukraine is a distraction
A half victory is a defeat, small countries should not be allowed to make their own fiesta.
All the while the nazi clown in Kiev moving around staging shows in parliaments. What fking strategy is this?
This pig should have been persona non grata. Should have been dead man walking. Not so difficult to find his rat hole, or boxer's hole.
Killing 10 people might spare the lives of 10 of thousands and petrify the EU cowards, that afraid more their own lives than anything else.
If he lives, he knows. Nobel and harvard wait for him, and messiah treatment, but dying is no cool.