Russia can then ingest Ukraine, continue to seed political distrust in Western countries and then potentially start another war in Europe a few years later.
Holy shit this is the most mapgame-brained comment of all time. You mean Russia will get enough war score to annex Ukrainian territories, wait a few years for aggressive expansion to die down, spend some admin points to press the “sow discontent” button, then war when the casus belli is ready? Like a classic EU4 blob?
Holy shit this is the most mapgame-brained comment of all time. You mean Russia will get enough war score to annex Ukrainian territories, wait a few years for aggressive expansion to die down, spend some admin points to press the “sow discontent” button, then war when the casus belli is ready? Like a classic EU4 blob?
Stop gaming and read some books.
Russia has been seeding discontent in Europe for decades. (1)
Russia has invaded Checnya, Abkhazia, Southern Ossetia, Transnistria, Krim, Ukraine (2). Baltics stand next in line, in a few years, if West fails.
It’s literally a sick war game for Putin’s Kreml.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68685604
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia
God, I hope so. The Baltics are fash af.
Things are not getting objectively worse in the West, its just russian propaganda!
I mean.
It’s not like Russia has never done any of those things individually.
So doing them again in that sequence seems right.
[citation needed]