He’s definitely right about the nuclear warheads. I don’t agree with his other points though. A friendlier Russia sounds like a good idea in theory, but there is no way Eastern European countries would accept that. The memory of USSR’s oppression was new and fresh. Eastern European countries definitely all wanted to align with the West fresh out of communism and “trying to keep Russia happy” was not a justifiable reason to reject them.
I don’t think he’s a smart man at all. Within a few days he managed to change the course of history for his country in the worst possible way.
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Germany completely flipped and now antagonises Russia. Russia spent more than a decade to build up Germany’s nuclear scepticism and reliance on Russian gas. The manipulation was so successful that Germany was literally Russia’s lapdog until last week. Now Germany will triple its military spending, Scholz is publicly calling Russia an enemy state in speeches, and Germany plans to restart nuclear plants and will never buy Russian gas again. This move also means that now that the EU is finally taking their defence seriously, the US can focus more on the REAL problem called China. It also shows that if China keeps pushing it, Japan would abandon pacifism fast and ramp up their defence like Germany did.
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Sweden and Finland will join NATO. The latest poll shows that the majority of Finnish population want to join NATO now, according to the last poll it was barely 20%. Sweden has a pact with Finland so if Finland joins, Sweden joins. Congratulations, not only did Putin fail to stop NATO from gaining more corrupt and poor af EE member states, NATO will gladly welcome two rich and capable new members, with one of whom Russia shares one of its longest borders in Europe.
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Switzerland of all countries decided to ditch their centuries-old tradition and sanction Russia. Most of Russian oligarchs’ assets are in this country. Including Putin’s.
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Russia is on its way to become the Venezuela of the north.
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UVL called Ukraine “one of us” and “welcomes” Ukraine into the EU. Before this war the prospect of Ukraine, the poorest country in Europe, would join the EU was unthinkable. Zelensky literally just applied.
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He made a hero out of the Ukrainian president and the Ukrainian people.
Even if god forbid Ukraine loses the war, Putin is entering the loser hall of fame. If this is not an epic fail I don’t know what is.