True.Everybody with elemental economical knowledge knew that they must collapse once West stop supporting them.
And it is what Reagan did.Well,made oil cheap and start rearming,too.
Russia-Ukraine War Political Discussion
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True.Everybody with elemental economical knowledge knew that they must collapse once West stop supporting them.
And it is what Reagan did.Well,made oil cheap and start rearming,too.
What they expected was it to collapse into a massive civil war that would have drawn everyone into it, if WW3 didn't kick off. The fact they went with a whimper was a shock to everyone. Left or Right.
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Kalingrad is very isolated relying on Lithuania to keep the supply going. Who gets dibs on it if things go hot?
Russia whines a lot and sends necessary supplies by ship, which is more expensive, less convenient, and may make the locals unhappy with the dear leader.
Who knows. It's a glorified military base currently, so it has no particular value to anyone except Russia due to its location, which isn't so valuable for neighboring countries, and the population would be a pain in the ass, so no one wants it particularly. May well end up divided between Lithuania and Poland, or made into some separate entity under EU or NATO.
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West Berlin's supply run was more stylish.
A victory flex from WW2 when Stalin took it from the Germans and expelled them. I don't see it's existence to continue further when it's isolated as an exclave in it's current position between Lithuania and Poland when things do go hot.
It's a place where they can put radars, missile launchers, radio intercept gear and so on, in middle of natoland, so they like it for that because it helps busy NATO countering it and to spy in peacetime, and it's one of those warmish ports on Baltic that they are obsessed about.
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It worked better when they had all those satellite states.
Now it's quite vulnerable as Lithunania demonstrated.
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It was more secure, and it was a place for stationing own hardware with less need for political dealings with said satellites yet close to them, but in some ways being a particularly westmost outpost it's even more valuable to them, while during Cold War East Germany was that.
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It was? Usually when a country has an exclave far away from official territory to be sandwiched between not exactly Russian friendly states then even when fortifying it the distance back makes resupply difficult if jeopradised. It is true the loss of those satelite states means less need for political dealings to simplify things to know where they stand.
You are looking at it from a completely different direction than a country considering the exclave a glorified military base would. The absolute worst that could happen is to lose the exclave during a war, but if they didn't have it, that's the position they are in to begin with.
Until then, they can use the exclave to gather SIGINT, do various political provocations and prepare it as a fortress during peacetime, and in wartime not only it busies enemy forces with countering the weapons and sensors stationed there, it puts even more burden on the enemy to invade and occupy it to neutralize those.
Meanwhile, once it was surrounded by satellite states, well, it could be used to station extra forces and nuclear weapons without dealing with the related politics of semi-independent satellite states, and of course to keep watch on said satellite states, but for spying on SIGINT from NATO of course the border states were better on distance alone. Same goes for stationing military forces during a war, when politics of that get more or less set aside.
Poland has the best historical claim to the place, in theory germany could claim it but the germans fully understand that trying would just put them in the same geo political nightmare position that existed before the 2nd world war were east prussia basically poisoned their relationship to useful buffer states.
So it would most likely either entirely go to poland, or be split between poland and lithuania.
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Probably the Indians, once they finish colonizing Eastern Europe after the nuclear exchange that ended the Third World War.
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That's going to be so far away I can't imagine it but Rome wasn't built in a day too.
Could Guernsey be the next domino subjected to Russian aggression?
Perhaps Snake Island was a Feint in preparation for the true military operation.
Perhaps Snake Island was a Feint in preparation for the true military operation.
Russia declares Guernsey an 'unfriendly state'
A senior Guernsey politician says: "Clearly little Guernsey's sanctions are beginning to bite."
www.bbc.com
Could Guernsey be the next domino subjected to Russian aggression?
Perhaps Snake Island was a Feint in preparation for the true military operation.
Russia declares Guernsey an 'unfriendly state'
A senior Guernsey politician says: "Clearly little Guernsey's sanctions are beginning to bite."www.bbc.com
That explain,why Moscov sunked.They simply making it into submarine,so she could sail to Guernsey undiscovered and take over.
But - they should be wary,i read that noble people of that fairy island still keep muskets to repel pirates !
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CNN Exclusive: Biden administration offers convicted Russian arms dealer in exchange for Griner, Whelan
After months of internal debate, the Biden administration has offered to exchange Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms trafficker serving a 25-year US prison sentence, as part of a potential deal to secure the release of two Americans held by Russia, Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, according...
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Two for the price of one arms dealer.
CNN Exclusive: Biden administration offers convicted Russian arms dealer in exchange for Griner, Whelan
After months of internal debate, the Biden administration has offered to exchange Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms trafficker serving a 25-year US prison sentence, as part of a potential deal to secure the release of two Americans held by Russia, Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, according...
Two for the price of one arms dealer.
I think we should have kept the arms dealer.
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This is an administration trying to secure a win. They'll take anything.
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If a WNBA player wasn't part of the deal it never would have been offered.
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