Ukrainian drones strike Russian gas facility over 3k km away in Siberia(kyivindependent.com) |
Ukrainian drones strike Russian gas facility over 3k km away in Siberia(kyivindependent.com) |
Nobody in EU, USA or China is interested in Russia winning the war because that would embolden them to further expand east to Moldova and Baltics.
And nobody in EU, USA or China is interested in Russia losing the war because that could turn into fracturing of Russia and civil war inside Russia with nukes.
Putin got Russia into impossible situation which will end badly either way.
If only the Taliban had received half a trillion of military and financial support. If only China had shipped them thousands of FPV drones per day and given them access to low-latency satcom and a trillion-dollar ISR ecosystem.
> how do you win them over
Putin would have loved to. But, finally, even he has realized that that brotherly ship has sailed for a while. Luckily for him there’s an alternative: he just has to make sure Ukraine doesn’t come back from this in any threatening fashion any time soon. An effort that’s well underway and intensifying.
His other option would be what the West’s darling is doing in the Middle East, genocide. But Putin is not a monster.