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There's no reason for Russia to take over the entire Ukraine. Ukraine is a failed state, poorest country in Europe, it is drowning in problems. Just look at the
by anticodon 5y ago
There's no reason for Russia to take over the entire Ukraine. Ukraine is a failed state, poorest country in Europe, it is drowning in problems. Just look at the stats from ukrstat.gov.ua
It was a dream of US and EU that Russia would take over the entire Ukraine, so that Russia would have to feed the hostile population and at the same time suffer more sanctions. But thankfully we didn't pick the bait. Now Ukraine is like a "suitcase without a handle" for EU and US: too inconvenient to continue carrying and seems too valuable to simply throw it away. They have to feed it to prevent a complete collapse, but they don't have any more gains from having Ukraine under control.
- jevgeni 5y agoMoldova is the poorest country in Europe. Ukraine is 2nd and Serbia is 3rd. Out of some wacky coincidence these are also the European countries that had very strong alignment with Russia.
- anticodon 5y agoOut of some wacky coincidence all the countries where US staged color revolutions (Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tunis, etc, etc) are doing much worse in all areas of life than before.
- jevgeni 5y agoSure, it's the color revolutions and not the years of Russia-supported kleptocracy and outright Russian invasions that are responsible for that. (Assuming that what you are saying is true. Although in your previous comment fact checking wasn't a strong point.)