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And much, much less than Zhirinovsky. Though you'd never see MSM portray him as alternative to Putin.

So in other words USA and Russia are not that different Never thought you were a neocon, well you learn something new every day. You are right, sending drones is much more civilized. Yeah, those are stupid, Navalny makes enough idiocies to make himself unpalatable to majority of Russians...

My bad, I must have missed how they cancelled the invasion of Iraq over it being unpopular outside of USA, Look up books or at least Wikipedia, Russia retained possession of Crimea (and Ukraine), it was only assigned to Ukraine SSR during Kruschev reign. The result of war was Turkey retaining...

In other words, kind of like USA, but on smaller scale. Crimean war wasn't about Crimea (which Russia held for decades by then) but about modern day Bulgaria and Romania, it was part of long term plan of Britain to uphold the Ottoman empire.

Since Putin's demand is that they don't attack Donbas, there really is no other option than war.

I call bullshit on that one

Any SIGINT can be fooled, the question is only for how long.

As I mentioned before, the Russian goal is to convince Ukrainian leadership not to attack Donbas during spring/summer. If Ukraine attacks Donbas, then Russia will assist Donbas forces, first with weapons and volunteers (and ''volunteers''), if that is not enough then there will be direct...

Russia could gather these forces in matter of days and with much less observation, it's something they practiced since 2008, the fact that they are doing it gradually and a lot of publicity shows that this is used as tool as diplomatic pressure.

No. Grozny is still a sore memory for the Russians in general and having a replay of it on a city ten times it's size is not something any Russian politician would even think off. The current situation suits Putin so diplomacy and military will continue to play whack-a-mole for foreseeable...

Yes and no. It's a big bluff, but I think the Ukraine will strike anyway, because they know that Russia will not go for the throat and soldiers are expendable goods. So there will be heavy fighting between Ukrainian and Donbass forces, if Ukrainians gain the upper hand then Russia will send a...

Snorkel kits for Russian tanks are nothing special, T-80 is not the best Russian tank T-90 and T-72B3 are, also Russians move their units by the railway all the time - have been doing that since 2008. As long as Ukrainians don't decide to Leeroy Jenkins in Donbass there won't be any big fight...

Seriously, some people are convinced that Russian leadership is slobbering imbeciles who want ALL OF UKRAINE!!!! It's bullshit, Donbass is enough of headache for them, their goal is to prevent Ukraine from retaking it and it will remain their goal fo foreseeable future, because they really can't...

Atlantic Council is always calling for war against Russia, it's what they are paid for. Russia is constantly rotating forces at their Southern border and right now they are increasing their troop levels somewhat, to discourage Ukraine from restarting war in Donbass. Ukraine on the other hand is...

Why would Russia push into Ukraine and why would USA have to do something over something? Just because third rate propaganda rag is posting something it doesn't necessarily mean it's true.