General Russia Ukraine round 2 Price hike boogaloo

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Qat

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Wintermute said:
The long game is exports. Europe buys a lot of Russia's energy (LNG+petro), and Nord Stream 1 + 2 make Germany the portal to Europe. Russia is an energy oligarchy. Putin's purpose is to make sure the energy oligarchs have access to European markets. That's the only thing keeping him in power and making him rich. He has his own nationalistic goals (re-assemble the Soviet Union, Eurasianism, Sambo), but his head is attached to his body because he keeps the government out of the oligarch's way and keeps them rich.

The US just agreed to increase LNG and other energy exports to Europe (Germany) in exchange for Germany agreeing to kill Nord Stream. Killing Nord Stream kills Putin. Literally. Putin now has to weigh the cost of re-taking Ukraine (really the goal is the warm water port at Sevastapol and thereby access to the Mediterranean through the Straights of Turkey) against losing his head.

Essentially, NATO called Putin's bluff and now we get to see what he'll do. He's also limited by spring rains, which have returned to Eastern Europe earlier this year and make moving armor across the Donbass impossible.
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So you don't think Russia should have legit security concerns?

Edit: a lot of what you wrote is on point. But the aggressor over ns2 is you, not Russia.
 
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Baby Yod said:
JT would get tossed
and he would like it
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Don’t let the facelifts fool you (he’s addicted to plastic surgery).

Vlad is an old man.

JT has like 2 feet of reach on him too, and a KILLER jab.
 
Rambo John J

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Lars said:
Don’t let the facelifts fool you (he’s addicted to plastic surgery).

Vlad is an old man.

JT has like 2 feet of reach on him too, and a KILLER jab.
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Do not white knight for JT any longer

Losing some respect

Vlad rides grizzlies
 
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Qat said:
Our chancellor flies to Moscow and Russia pulls back the first troops.
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They’re just moving them from Belarus to the east of Ukraine in Russia

you’ve been fact checked
 
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