Near as I can tell, Putin's goal has always been to restore the borders of the old Soviet Union/Russian Empire, even going back to the 90s in Chechnya and Georgia. As an E-6 I once knew put it: "Russia is and will always be a 2nd-world power, and that makes them very mad". Putin is out to Make Russia Great Again, like he always has been. There are times when this attitude has run parallel to the interest of American patriots, and there are times when it has not.
I don't think this is correct. The US was destabilizing Ukraine at the end of the Obama administration. Trump's election delayed them. Now "America is back." After pulling out of Afghanistan, the Deep State had to pick between aggravating Russian through Ukraine or China through Taiwan and they chose the former. I don't think this has anything to do with domestic issues, it's pure foreign policy.
Yeah I don't think economic penalty is gonna do anything when rockets and bullets are flying all around you right now.
There was a report earlier about Lukashenko being on a phone call with Putin. Maybe this has to do with that?
Russia already had very good SHORAD from the beginning, I'm not sure why people thought drones were some silver bullet that would change modern warfare instead of just another tool in a competent military's arsenal to begin with.
Have you tried living in Russia? It's cold and shit.
Nonsense. Ukraine needs to implement better no gun zone policies
kneepads to shoot a gun?
Yeah it seems the Belarusian army has joined the war, it is pretty much over for Ukraine at this point
This is a question you should be asking the globohomo cabal that flooded the country with weapons and propaganda, sponsored far-right nationalist militias, and generally destroyed any chance of normalcy for over 30 years now. Anyway. As unfortunate this is, last few months showed it was unavoidable. Hope this ends quickly and without many civilian casualties.
Wouldn't be a Happenings thread without "muh Joooooooos"
putin is jewish?
