[tlozo]

"An entire generation of young Ukrainians with no memory of the shared Soviet past now knows Russia primarily as an enemy aggressor. Support for Ukraine’s pro-Russian political parties has plummeted to record lows, while a clear majority of Ukrainians backs the previously unpopular idea of NATO membership. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that Putin’s Ukraine strategy has been a self-inflicted defeat of historic proportions. "

[Savage Beast]

"Putin’s imperialism turns neighbors into enemies"

...but it's NOTHING compared to the woke generation's assault on America!

[Gen.Blather]

Russia has a serious problem. It has no geographic barriers to invasion and they are justifiably concerned about sitting on an open plain surrounded by countries who have regularly invaded them. The driving issue is that Russia is in a demographic collapse. In the land of free abortions and everything else being too expensive to allow easy survival, people stopped having children. Russia must act to secure boarders defensible by a significantly smaller army as there are fewer and fewer eighteen-year-old’s to fight invaders. Another issue is that Russia simply can’t afford food, as their economy is wrecked. All of their neighbors can make money exporting food stocks to the West, but can’t make the same money exporting to Russia. Therefore, Russia has to secure those stocks for itself while it still can muster an army to do so. If they don’t, then Russia will slowly starve even as there are fewer and fewer mouths to feed. For Russia, this is the perfect storm. They must either strike now or lose the ability to do so as the army ages-out of existance.

[ClearCase_guy]

Putin is not my enemy. The US government is my enemy.

[sauropod]

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