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Called It!
I have been predicting, for most of the past year, that Russia, with too heavy a commitment to the Ukrainian war, will start to split apart as regions separate from Moscow.
“The law is Russian as we all know… we don’t want to be a part of the ex-Soviet Union, we want to be a part of the European Union, we want to be pro-West,” one protester told Reuters news agency.
If this follows through to its conclusion, we can expect a cascade of similar protests, movements, and separations. Russia lacks the manpower and resources to hold things together. As and when other regions in Moscow’s sphere of influence get it in their heads that there is nothing Russia can do to keep them in the Mother Ship, they will follow suit.
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You’ve been predicting and hoping for the imminent fall of Ukraine for over a year now, but none of it has even come close to materializing.
Forgive my ignorance here, but are the satellite countries like Georgia and Moldova etc. currently part of NATO?
No. I wouldn’t call them satellite countries, though. They’re trying to keep from becoming satellite countries.
Nothing wrong with asking. No, Georgia and Moldova are not in NATO. However, many other former Soviet Satellite Countries are, for instance, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Georgia is trying to gain entry to both NATO and the European Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_NATO
Hoping for – absolutely not. I have been hoping for this to be negotiated, but the warmongering neocons in the US State Dept will have nothing to do with it. You seem to be on their side.
Predicting – absolutely.
Coming close to materializing happens by the day.
I don’t think we would even be having this discussion if Donald J. Trump were in the White House.
No, we’d be talking about some nonsense Amarosa had seen or reported. That was the genius of the man.
So true. This is what I think Putin is counting on . . .
Did you just call Trump a “genius?” Is the Australian heat getting to you?
Must be. Actually I think he really is when it comes to ruling the media cycle.
Prompted by @heavywater ‘s post on JK Rowling being interviewed by Megan Phelps-Roper, I read Megan’s biographical ‘Unfollowed’. Westboro Baptist interacted with the media the same way – and to some degree with similar motivation.
Compared to Joe Biden and the rest of the terrorist cabal at the State Department, Trump is a genius. Only these buffoons could isolate the United States the way these idiots are. Only these idiots would have nothing to offer any other country other than threats and death.
Im sure someone else has pointed this out, but Georgia has been effectively an independent country since 1991.
So you have called absolutely nothing. Its not a region breaking away. It broke away over 30 years ago. Try to keep up.
It was a joke, Dude. Zafar is no fan of Trump.
No, I was serious. He was excellent at managing the news cycle. How much free publicity did he get out of the media? How profoundly did he manipulate his supporters? Give him his due, I say.
Yes, but that’s just because when one doesn’t have a war to prosecute or something else just as consuming of attention and resources, one must have the Amarosa nonsense.
But there was a war being prosecuted in Afghanistan. And another proxy one in Syria. Not to mention other grown up issues like the national debt. And yet.
I don’t think it’s that different today. Both parties prefer culture wars to the other option.