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Oh, shit, so he for sure is planning to invade Europe, then.
Next will be Moldova, then the Baltics.
Moldova seems a most likely target, indeed, however, I don't know how could Russia logistically pull that off. Unless Trump makes Ukraine capitulate and disarm which is not unlikely at this point. Baltics are a different story as they are full NATO members.
It's not that he wouldn't like to, but how could he is another story.
Trump has already said the EU was made to harm America. Trump also dislikes NATO. So pretty sure he'd have little issue with it. Probably more depends on how long it takes Putin to get to Western Europe and how robust they, Western Europe, can make their MIC between now and then.
There are all sorts of possibilities between now and then so no telling how it all plays out.
The idea that Russia, a country with a GDP the size of the Benelux, could take on an economic block comparable in size to China, is simply ridiculous.
Russia hasn’t even been able to take down Ukraine, how could it ever be able to take down the entire EU?
Piece by piece, always both saying that those bits had always been Russian and that the surrounding nations have nothing to worry about.
That’s a lot of pieces ’till Western Europe, which was the scenario I was responding to. And, while I have very little faith in our politicians, they’re not complete imbeciles. An attack on an EU country will certainly lead to an even stronger push towards unification than is the case now already, with just threatening words (from Trump, though - not Putin).
Well, when the US puts its war machine behind the venture…
The scenario I was responding to implied the US would wait and see „how long it takes Putin to get to Western Europe”, at least that’s how I read it.
And the answer is: he wouldn’t ever reach Western Europe. Not in a million years. It’s simply fantasy.
Chinas also slowly taking over Russia, resources in siberia. Russia will soon be a hollowed husk
Well, they're doing a pretty good job with USA.
They could Ribbentrop-Molotov Europe with the US and China I guess