| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia | |
| Putin Ushers in the New Geopolitical Game Board | |
| 2022-02-27 | |
Too many people try to analyze geopolitics like it is a game of chess. Move, counter-move. Push a pawn? Threaten a knight, that type of thing. It’s easy to understand and makes for good copy. In the past I’ve tried to liken it to a multi-player version of Go, with anywhere from four to 6 different colored stones on the board trying to take territory. It was a better metaphor but nearly impossible to describe adequately. In fact, at times, it was exhausting. | |
| Posted by:746 |
| #1 Looking at reports of Russia having insufficient military supplies already has me wondering. I'm starting to think Putin looked around at Russia's economy (size of Florida) and his military stockpile (always aging and never as great as promote) and Russia's slowly diminishing influence in the world, realized that Russia will have zero influence after four more years of Trump. Because of that he decided to gamble that the Ukrainians would fold quick and he'd have their food and resources to extend Russia a bit longer. If he did it now the West wouldn't do all that much and they'd be ready to patch things up sometime during Trump's return. Except the Ukrainians fought tooth and nail against the invasion, and they got lucky in a few places. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-02-27 09:21 |