3 ms·
And what exactly would Russia gain by invading Central Europe? Even now they can barely afford maintaining their occupation of Crimea.
by wwtrv 6y ago
And what exactly would Russia gain by invading Central Europe? Even now they can barely afford maintaining their occupation of Crimea.
- baybal2 6y agoNothing, but that didn't stop Putin from his past military misadventures.
- wwtrv 6y agoNot that I’m in any way justifying them but Russia’s actions in the Ukraine might be considered to be defensive in nature (from a purely pragmatic real-politik point of view). Ukraine used to be pretty much a puppet state of Russia until 2014. When pro-western parties cam to power Putin decided to just peel off what he can (Crimea) since they are are gonna loose the rest anyway and start permanent border conflict in Donbas so that the Ukraine would never be accepted into NATO.