Right, I was too lazy to check.

Starting this war in the first place was the worst possible idea that never made any sense

It made sense to the NATO strategists who recommended to not expand NATO further, because of that war.

The rubel is massively devalued. PPP calculations have to be taken with a grain of salt.

The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine https://lemmy.world/post/27574354

NYT article explains it.

Artikel 42 EU treaty. All members of the EU have to fight with their full capacity. This will escalate quickly.

There are already EU troops in the Baltics, just to remind the Russans of it.

Because Germany is on your side?

Careful that you don’t draw the wrong conclusion.

France will because it’s article 42 of the EU.

They could just go to war with Russia. War is not an article 5 exclusive.

The point was to win an election.

Once you are there, start wondering if Trump is really that mad or if they are implementing an old Nixon plan.

it would at least be easier to say that their views are not shared by any of us to any newcomers/outsiders

Do we need users who cannot mentally separate that?

Important reminder. Why is this downvoted?

No. Putin cannot have that influence or Trump wouldn’t have come so far. Russia and China have recently settled those border issues because they are on the same side.

Or ChatGPT has become a precog and is reporting a precrime. Lock him up!

The Saudi investment fond. It’s a perfect complement for that Pokemon Go data.

What Trump is doing doesn’t make sense. But it also doesn’t make sense that the elite accepts the loss of softpower without organizing an impeachment.

How else could the USA preserve their hegemonic position?

What happened in Siberia and the far east? Which groups were killed?

so this would never go forward barring a major restructuring of NATO w

You believe that NATO without the USA would fight a war against Russia?

Because Putin doesn’t have the influence that the media suggests. Trump doesn’t bother to correct the left since it keeps them distracted from project 2025. Greenland and Canada wouldn’t matter if Russia were an ally.

Instead the war is continuing as before which could lead to the end of the Russian regime. China must prefer NATO troops on the Dnieper over NATO troops on the Amur.