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Beyond Ukraine: Why Europe is preparing for a wider conflictcnn.com
15 points•rawgabbit•10 days ago•12 comments•
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api6 days ago
What does Russia hope to gain from this? Is there any kind of rational motive, even an amoral one like “grab resources,” or is this driven by a bunch of historical destiny and weird neo-trad Duginist bullshit?

Seems like if Russia had stayed peaceful they could be selling Siberia as a cheap place to put data centers (cold and tons of power) and cleaning up.

mopsi6 days ago

  > What does Russia hope to gain from this?
Tie up European military resources and thus reduce the weaponry available to Ukraine.

This also highlights why the US/European strategy of playing chicken and focusing on "de-escalation" is fundamentally flawed: it gives adversaries the initiative and the lever for controlling the temperature. Whenever it gets too hot for them, they can dial it down, whereas the "de-escalation" camp has to dance to the tune of their adversaries.

It's the very same mistake that was made with Hitler.

drysine9 days ago
>Russia remains bogged down in Ukraine. But Putin does not need another invasion on the scale of Ukraine to challenge NATO. He can move up an escalation ladder: sabotage, cyberattacks, assassination plots, drone or missile attacks — and then a limited military operation designed to test whether NATO still means what it says.

So Russia is too weak to conquer Ukraine but wants to risk other countries joining hot war? What for? Get bogged down even more?

rawgabbit9 days ago
You assume rationality when history has shown wars are often started with irrational or no apparent reason.
jacquesm9 days ago
Check that account's comment history.
tencentshill9 days ago
It's disturbing how much of leadership is based on arbitrary decisions. Military included.
AnimalMuppet9 days ago
TL;DR: Because Russia is ramping up hybrid/unconventional attacks, and Belarus is training for an attack on the Baltics. Russia and Belarus are being aggressively hostile; if you want peace, prepare for war.

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