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Onvacation says

Russia, if we don't make peace.

Oh, a prediction. And a juicy one to boot.

Care to add a timeline?

PS. You do realize that by posting that map you basically agreed withe premise that the whole SCHMO is nothing but a landgrab?

RWSGFY says

Aaaaand they keep
confessing:

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1706377083608293415/mediaViewer

Let's hear the pretzel-logic denial of why this diesn't mean what it means.
Anybody wants to take a stab at this?

@Onvacation, your take?

RWSGFY says

You do realize that by posting that map you basically agreed withe premise that the whole SCHMO is nothing but a landgrab?

No, it means that Russia will do what it needed to do to stop the Black Sea from becoming a NATO pond. Russia took Crimea in 2014 to prevent a NATO naval base at Sevastopol, and if the war continues with Ukraine leaning further toward NATO, the Russians will take the coast to prevent a NATO base at Odessa.

RWSGFY says

your take?

Good!

But where will corrupt politicians get their bribes from?

HeadSet says

No, it means that Russia will do what it needed to do to stop the Black Sea from becoming a NATO pond. Russia took Crimea in 2014 to prevent a NATO naval base at Sevastopol, and if the war continues with Ukraine leaning further toward NATO, the Russians will take the coast to prevent a NATO base at Odessa.

Russia is struggling to hang onto the bits of stolen Ukrainian land they have now. Russia's navy in the Black Sea is in absolute shambles.

How the heck do you think Russia could muster the forces and weapons to take Odessa?

socal2 says

Russia's navy in the Black Sea is in absolute shambles.

So what? Navies don't fight land wars.

iwog2 says

socal2 says

Russia's navy in the Black Sea is in absolute shambles.

So what? Navies don't fight land wars.

Their army apparently doesn't either. Or at least seems to be getting their asses handed to them by a lesser opponent. This would be like the US going into Chad and getting our asses handed to us. A basically land locked country, though we don't even share a border. I don't care who is rooting for who, but Russia looks like shit in this. Undeniable. No different than us in Iraq or Afghanistan.

WookieMan says

Their army apparently doesn't either. Or at least seems to be getting their asses handed to them by a lesser opponent.

Or like the US going into Afghanistan, spending 20 years there, getting the asses handed to them, only to finally abandon the country in a hurry, abandoning 80 billion dollars of equipment there to have China and Russia to buy that and generally just totally fuck up

But THIS war will be different!!!!

We have to win one of the fucking things eventually! If we just keep doing this over and over again eventually well luck out....

WookieMan says

Their [Russia's] army apparently doesn't either. Or at least seems to be getting their asses handed to them by a lesser opponent.

The US is not a lesser opponent. If the US had never been involved in Ukraine we would not be at war with Russia.

Anybody else remember Hillary beating the war drums against Russia before she lost to Trump in 2016?

WookieMan says

Russia looks like shit in this. Undeniable. No different than us in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The US military defeated the Iraqi and Afghanistan defenses and got control of those 2 countries (half a world away) in less than a month. The US military failed at keeping the crazy Muslims from killing each other and finally gave up.

Russia's failure is a totally different universe. Russia lost more men and material in 30 days than the US lost in both wars over 20 years. And Ukraine is right next fucking door with supposedly a bunch of pro-Russian sympathizers.

The US was having to support combat posts in Afghanistan that might as well been on the moon as they were so remote and difficult to access.

socal2 says

Russia's failure is a totally different universe. Russia lost more men and material in 30 days than the US lost in both wars over 20 years.

Well, of course, the US just bombs infrastructure from the air. One tactic of the US military in the Iraq war was to blow up sewage treatment and water plants, they also wouldn't allow the use of chlorine in the water to encourage disease outbreaks.

The confessions keep on flowing:

An official in the Ukrainian region which Moscow claims to have annexed has said Russia should try to take territory that was formerly part of the Russian Empire "through the might" of weapons.

In September 2022, Zaporizhzhia was one of four Ukrainian regions that Vladimir Putin claimed to have annexed, the others being Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk, although Moscow does not fully control any of them.

But the top Kremlin-installed official in the oblast, Yevgeny Balitsky, said Russia should also have its eye on the Baltic states, as well as Poland and Finland, all five of which are NATO countries.

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In the interview shared by Russia watcher Julia Davis, Balitsky seemed ready to take on the alliance as he spoke of how the Russian Empire that ended with the 1917 revolution had "lost its footing" as well as "great numbers of people."

"I'm not even talking about territories. I understand that it includes Warsaw, Helsinki, also known as Helsingfors," he said.

The Russian Empire, which existed between 1721 and 1917, covered a vast territory. Finland was part of Russia's empire until it declared its independence after the Russian Revolution. The 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk saw revolutionary Russia renounce its claims on Polish territories.

Balitsky described how "all of the Baltics" were "all our lands, and our people live there," noting the Russian-speaking population in those countries.

"They were turned into a voiceless heard, they became trembling beasts," he said. "We have to correct this...through the might of Russian weapons.

"I don't believe in any diplomacy in this instance. Of course diplomacy always has to be present but I believe we can get it back only with the might of Russian weapons."

He said that Russia can "get our people back, the former subjects of the Russian Empire"