Never wonder why NK and Iran want nukes - countries with nukes don't get invaded.
There's never been a tyrant that didn't want more leverage, power and control over other people.Putin has said that the worse thing that has ever happened in the history of the world is the breakup of the Soviet Union. Everything he thinks and does is through this filter. He will do anything short of self-destruction to reform the USSR. Anything he thinks he can get away with toward the goal of reforming the USSR he will do. In his mind, it is his destiny to rebuild the Soviet Union. And, he is nuts.
Do you wonder if this would have happened had Ukraine kept their nuclear weapons they inherited during the “fall” of he Soviet Union?
Me thinks not.
I think the final out come will be Putin will use the invasion as a means to install a pro Russian puppet government then pull back out. The bear will go back to its den…..
Who will cave first, the Russians or the most vulnerable Europeans who depend on Russian gas to run their economies?
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Situation is very confused. First it's confined to Donbas. Then it's about the "demilitarisation and denazification" of Ukraine. Either way, the fat is really in the fire now.
Ukraine-Russia crisis: Putin announces military operation - BBC News
Ukraine conflict: Russia announces special military operation in Donbas - BBC News
The Europeans can’t wait to grovel at Russia’s feet, and the Ukraine is as good as gone, IMO.