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To that point, letting Gadaffi go in Libya (they had UN Security Council veto power over resolution 2016) was Russia's great strategical blunder. Libya was a fr
by CalChris 7y ago
To that point, letting Gadaffi go in Libya (they had UN Security Council veto power over resolution 2016) was Russia's great strategical blunder. Libya was a friendly Mediterranean base. Because of that, they're never going to give up Syria.
- ChuckMcM 7y agoFrom a geopolitical aspect I think this is perhaps the most significant leverage the "west" has over Russian military adventurism. Not enough people put these two together, if they did they would not be surprised by either Russia's support of the Assad's forces, nor Russia strong-arming the Turks.
- jseliger 7y agoFrom a geopolitical aspect I think this is perhaps the most significant leverage the "west" has over Russian military adventurism Russia is a petrostate, so the most significant leverage we could have over them is electric vehicles and, ideally, appropriate carbon taxes. Nuclear power would probably be #2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21992958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21992958
- woodandsteel 7y agoCorrect, Russia is going to decline radically in the next few decades due to renewable energy, and none of Putin's geopolitical adventurism is going to alter that fact.
- anticodon 7y agoRussia is the leader in nuclear energy which is the only viable green energy source at the moment.