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"Russia is very much the junior partner in the relationship with China" Exactly, Putin is not the grand strategist the world thinks he is
by ClumsyPilot 5y ago
"Russia is very much the junior partner in the relationship with China"
Exactly, Putin is not the grand strategist the world thinks he is
- jonnycomputer 5y agoAnyone that can make Switzerland and Sweden take sides against you isn't a grand strategist.
- ncmncm 5y agoPutin just was, and remains, in a desperate place. Strategy is fine at leisure. He had no choice but to do something to seem strong, to remain in power. If this doesn't work, he may move on to something desperate.
- seniorivn 5y agothat's not true at all, he doesn't need anything to remain in power, but if he wanted to get more popular among general population he could provided economic growth
- ncmncm 5y agoEvidently he is not, then, interested in getting more popular, because the invasion is an economic disaster. But he doesn't get his power from popularity. He gets it by being the baddest ass on the totem pole. Chances are the invasion on the northern and eastern fronts are more or less feints, and only the southern front actually matters to him, as it gets him full control of the Black Sea shore and the oil fields. He needs the Ukrainian forces fully occupied elsewhere, and doesn't much care what happens there as long as it absorbs enough of their attention.