It seems that the Russians are running out of ammo/ artillery shells in Donbas Region. Also loosing men/ tanks/ trucks/ rocket launchers/ artillery/ guns. It maybe a bloodbath for the Russians once Ukrainians have their Western tanks/ longer range US missile systems/ anti-missile/ aircraft defense batteries installed. NATO should go into Moldova and give them the same tools/ just in case Putin decides to invade there. Another good idea/ send in agents throughout Russian Federation to ferment dissent and rebellion against their Moscow dictatorship.
Putin cares more about keeping up the facade of victory rather than saving his soldiers who are being annihilated en masse. At this point, every death is preventable. However, jackasses like him can't set aside their pride and admit defeat. This comes from a historical Russian focus on territorial expansion. It's now or never for Putin. A few months ago he apparently fell down the stairs and defecated himself. I have been wishing his bowel cancer progresses and he dies a horrid death on par with the pain he has inflicted on the less fortunate and hardy Ukranians. By the way - if it progresses further, the Baltics are next. I have distant cousins asking for my assistance in bringing them to the United States, because they are anticipating it reaching them.
Putin is a communist/socialist and will be until the day he dies. It will be a better world without him.
Problem is..... Most Russians support Him and his regime/ the War in Ukraine. If Putin dies/ maybe he will be replaced with even someone worse. I think Moldova would be next/ then either Finland/ Estonia/ Lithuania/ Latvia/ Poland (all NATO) and their populations faced Russian aggression/ genocide in past century. A best case scenario would be if China invaded FE Russia/ and the two rogue states destroy each other. Then the World would be much safer.....
Or.....crappy Russian T-72s/ 90s vs German Leopards 2s/ US Abrams Ukrainian Azov elite warriors vs Russian "expendables" Good vs Evil (Russkies) Zekenskyy vs Putin/ modern day Stalin
The best case scenario would be for Alexei Anatolievich Navalny to be installed as the next leader of Russia and clean house of all Putin allies. Return Russia to its beaten down people and join the European Union as a peaceful trading partner. Then China would find itself isolated and irrelevant.
If there is any justice in the world, this would best serve us all. A peaceful Russia, an isolated China, and a unified Europe. Of course, it will probably go the other direction. *sigh*
Wagner may have just been giving out misinformation, a common war. tactic-since they have expanded their attacks since then.
Russia has no interest in the Baltic or Finland. The communist did but all the communists and socialists are running the European Union today and not in Czarist Russia that loves their church, has family values and has the strongest economy in Europe. Russia originally just wanted to help free the areas of Eastern Ukraine and Southern Ukraine that have been under attack by western Ukraine since 2014 after the elected President of Ukraine was forced out by armed mobs that at the time German and French news, DW/France 24, stated were backed by Obama misusing the CIA. Those areas voted to leave the new nation of Ukraine since they had different values. I think Russia now wants the entire Baltic Sea coast line since they were defeated in trying to force Kiev to a quick surrender at the start when they invaded from Belarus and now fighting slowly for the long haul.
Considering part of the reason the Russians annexed Crimea was for warm-water ports (which Russia generally lacks), I would think that they wouldn't mind connecting the mainland to Kaliningrad Oblast. Along with this, the rationale for attacking Ukraine was partially that they speak a similar/ the same language, and that they once were under Russian control. This is a very loose definition of what it means to be Russian. This rationale would encompass Kazakhstan, Belarus (essentially a puppet state for Russian interests), Lithuania, and other regions. The Russian language rationale is the most shocking, since Russia spent decades demolishing culture in these nations, going as far as to ban their native languages. It won't happen unless there are serious increases in aggression - considering the Baltic nations are in the EU, NATO, but the residents of these nations are in fear. It is fear rooted in historical oppression.
Did you not watch Putin's so called "Victory Parade"? I swear I saw lots of Communist regalia from USSR days/ he even worships Stalin! The same monster who send his NKVD thugs to purge people who tried worshipping God. Putin and his cabale made themselves rich from keeping all the resources money for their personal lifestyles/ anyone who dares question this end up in gulags/ murdered/ tortured. Putin could not care less about the Russian people/ or the thousands of soldiers he sends to their death each day. All he wants is his 1.6 B palace on the Black Sea/ his model girlfriends/ and absolute power. But/ its been like that since 1500s when Ivan IV "the Terrible raped/ pillaged/ murdered to expand Russia from the Duchy of Moscovy/ from then they made War to attack weaker neighbours/ to gain territory. Of course they got a pounding from the Swedes under Charles XII/ Napoleon at Friedland/ Austerlitz/ Borodino/ Japan1905/ Germany in WW!/ 2. They can only win when they outnumber the adversary 25-1. Hence they are loosing in Bakmut taking 1000 KIA each day to Ukraine 100.
That should still be called Konigsberg. FDR handed over all this to the butcher in Potsdam/ Yalta. Patton was correct when he wanted the Allies + German volunteers to march East in July 45.
I’ve been in Russian Orthodox churches in Kiev to Moscow. The only people shutting down churches and burning books is western Ukraine. Look it up. And why are you looking so far back. It is like saying the South in the USA still supports slavery. And you really should realize that your numbers that are being fed to you are made up. Russia has not even used their main army yet in this war other then artillery and paratroopers.
You will not believe it but I will post it anyway: Friend of mine in Kiev, Ukraine told me over the phone that he carries cash to pay off people who are basically kidnapping men walking the streets from ages 16 to 60 to send to the front as cannon folder.
Russia has a train line directly to Kaliningrad. It is all that they need and it is no where near their agenda to be interested in the Baltic nations. All of that EU/NATO talk is just to justify their actions in Ukraine.