Russia's only real goal has been stability and forming a bloc with the global south. Oil and gas are just the tip of the iceberg... Rare resources such as lithium, which the Donbas has are the main thing here. And the eurofags didnt, the CIA did.
Ukraine is a different conversation. My point is that supporting Syria is becoming a case of diminishing returns for Russia. It's unpopular inside Russia, it relies on untrustworthy entities like the mullah regime, and it's proving to be more of a liability now that Hezbollah and Assadist troops are fleeing and leaving Russian soldiers to face HTS. Neither Syria nor Iran are stable allies.
I wonder why Russia and China don't share the view that Russia and China have little to nothing to worry about militarily from the US. They should really just get it over with already and attack the US and Turkey and Israel and Japan and everyone else that would jump in, it's so obvious
Might as well say the US military would be unaffected if the president, vice president, both parties' congressional leadership, 90% of the people filling the positions listed here, 90% of the rest of the top-level federal department hierarchies, and 90% of the officers stationed at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Kadena, and Ramstein were wiped out in a month, militaries don't work like that it would be no big deal
It's more that you talk like a faggot and your political views solely align with the US State Department, making you sound like an ingenuine nigger bordering on actual State asset
Not rodent-y enough. This one looks more camel-y.
Syria is still stable enough to hold out, provided nobody gets any new toys to play with there... Whatever yappers you keep listening to regarding iran are wrong because the last time I checked they havent done anything even close to a fuckup. And as far as losses go they have an endless supply of kontraktniks to fight.
Give it 24 hours and we'll see how stable it is. But I still don't think Russia should be throwing people into a meat grinder just because Hezbollah and Assadists are too cowardly to fight. The pipeline is a non-factor, Europe is on its way to deindustrialization and doesn't need oil and gas anymore.
My favorite cope is that during the start of the war the Russians are running out of missiles and drones. I guess they are running out of bombs to
You mean unironic kikes vs ziggers thread.
The Ukrainian icon wasn’t what did it lol. Way to be super disingenuous. It was actually the Putin posting that made me say what I said about this turning into another debate thread. You just weirdly assumed it was your post that made me say that. Guilty conscience perhaps?
Well, there were secret parts of his "victory plan" ...
Image. That is the primary goal of any Western or Western-aligned power. Lines on graphs, lines on maps, figureheads, big numbers, media-ready scenes, etc. Other powers don't really care if Western media portrays them as weak or strong. So an organization like Hezbollah, which has been fighting israel on and off for decades, who they know practice assassinations, can just randomly be done in in a month? I don't think so. What's more telling is israel's behavior, such as approaching with a weak ceasefire deal. Putting up a figurehead on the media and saying he's dead, and using that to measure success is the type of mentality that leads people to believe the US won in Afghanistan or Vietnam or any of these other places because of a disparity in bodycount. It signals wanting to stop having to deal with it more than anything.
Nothing to do with image. Hezbollah is now simply no longer capable of attacking Israel, and they were forced to sign an agreement that says Israel can bomb them if even one Arab looks funny towards the Golan Heights.
Hezbollah has never suffered assassinations on such a large scale before. There is a significant difference between losing a dozen or so figures over a decade and losing much of their leadership in a couple of months.
Even then, Cuba is a failing state with nearly constant power outages, crumbling EVERYTHING and a military that's rusting away and hasn't had a new system inducted since 1992....
