My guess is that they’re trying to garner support for the idea that incursions into Russia to stop putin is the next step if/when Ukraine wins. I don’t think the rest of the EU would go through with it unless they believed that Russia needs to be further broken up or liberated from autocrat rule.
Yikes. Being called Russian propaganda for just speculating.
Fwiw I agree with you, no serious politician or officer would. Things like this just start out as an idea, maybe not even a realistic one. I’m fairly certain that if there ever was a threat of taking land from Russia, then China would step in.
I think China has a interest in keeping Russia as a vassal state if Russia falls that far. They have a lot of useful resources and it’s easier to own them in that way while providing “protection” than to have to deal with annexing and everything that comes with that.
South Eastern parts could be annexed fairly easily, true. But I don’t know if there are any interesting resources in the rest of Russia that China has interest in.
My guess is that they’re trying to garner support for the idea that incursions into Russia to stop putin is the next step if/when Ukraine wins. I don’t think the rest of the EU would go through with it unless they believed that Russia needs to be further broken up or liberated from autocrat rule.
No serious politicans nor militarty officers in the EU, nor NATO are talking about invading Russia.
Such threat is a part of Russian propaganda, and is against the principle purpose of NATO.
Yikes. Being called Russian propaganda for just speculating.
Fwiw I agree with you, no serious politician or officer would. Things like this just start out as an idea, maybe not even a realistic one. I’m fairly certain that if there ever was a threat of taking land from Russia, then China would step in.
What makes you think that China would step in?
China could join in and take South-Eastern parts of Russia, where the poulation are very asian, and were historically Chinese aligned.
I think China has a interest in keeping Russia as a vassal state if Russia falls that far. They have a lot of useful resources and it’s easier to own them in that way while providing “protection” than to have to deal with annexing and everything that comes with that.
South Eastern parts could be annexed fairly easily, true. But I don’t know if there are any interesting resources in the rest of Russia that China has interest in.
I didn’t call you a propaga dist, I said that Russia uses that concept of an impending NATO invasion as propaganda.
Incidentally, that propaganda is traditionally more internally focused, than external.
I had no idea.
First I’ve heard that take! I’d be all for dismantling Russia, but it’s not my dollars or ass on the line.