For Those Clowns Who Really Thought That Russia Wants to Stop With Ukraine

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that the only way for Moscow to ensure a lasting peace with Ukraine was to push back the borders of hostile states as far as possible, even if that meant the frontiers of NATO member Poland.

Medvedev is Putin's sock puppet. He would not say anything like that without approval from his puppetteer.

Let's leave no doubt about anything, here. A Russian attack on Poland is an attack on a NATO nation by a non-NATO nation. One of the founding principles of NATO is that an attack on one is an attack on all. If Russia carries out Medvedev's idea of Russian lebensraum, then Russia will be at war with every NATO country.[1] Including all of North America to the north of the Rio Grande.

If there is war with Russia, it will become nuclear very quickly. The Russian army has been nearly smashed by Putin's "walk in the park" in Ukraine. They are throwing thousands of ill-trained soldiers into a battle to capture an insignificant Ukrainian city. They don't have the combat power now, or for the next few years, to start another war. Even if they subsume Belarus, the people there seem to be less than willing to go along with Putin's territorial ambitions, let alone die for a future conqueror.

I would bet that in the event of such a war, China will adhere to strict neutrality, in a hope of picking up the pieces afterwards and becoming the global power of what remains. And possibly the Mexicans might seek to retake what they view as their ancestral lands.[2]
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[1] Except Hungary and Turkey, who are closer to being frenemies than allies. They're pretty much NATO alies in name only. [2] Since the Russians would have made the Law of Conquest the name of the game, they'd feel free to try.

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