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Even if he succeeds in that, what is the end game? You now have an immutable hard border on one side of your country, are knee deep in sanctions which will not
by hughrr 5y ago
Even if he succeeds in that, what is the end game?
You now have an immutable hard border on one side of your country, are knee deep in sanctions which will not evaporate and another giant nation ready to take advantage of your poor position on the other side because they’re the only people who will even touch you with a 20 foot long stick. On top of that you have to now commit resources to permanently securing a whole another country which doesn’t want you in it and is being supplied with superior weapons from just about everyone else on the planet.
Putin just sold the whole nation into poverty, slavery and decay.
This is what we generally call a galactic scale fuck up.
- disambiguation 5y agoThis is recency bias. We imposed sanctions after the invasion of Crimea too, those eventually went away. In time these will too. I don't expect the West to be so well behaved that it can go on very long without cheap oil and gas.
- EastSmith 5y agoCurrent sanctions are orders of magnitude larger. From last hour: "Credit rating agency Fitch states that Russian default on debt is "imminent”.