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2022-02-12 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia is not interested in attacking Ukraine

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Posted by badanov 2022-02-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 But Russia is interested in screwing around with President Brandon.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2022-02-12 00:30|| 2022-02-12 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 ^-- Everyone should have a hobby!

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-02-12 01:17|| 2022-02-12 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 I dont see a nato no fly zone in ukraine, biden is talking more sanctions.
strategically germans wont allow attacks from germany, eastern med is bottle necked by russian base in western syria.
Putin has absolute power, now working on his legacy.
My bet is yeah they will attack, its not a NATO member.

Posted by flash91 2022-02-12 03:09|| 2022-02-12 03:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, well, for the record neither am I, but I'm not An Island Boi!

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-12 11:17|| 2022-02-12 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 The issue of issues is NATO.

All the public opinion polling data show beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is next to zero Russian public support for invading Ukraine, annexing Ukraine or even for "treating the West as an enemy." Russians overwhelmingly oppose a war with Ukraine.

Russians don't give a fvck about Ukraine; they care intensely about "resisting NATO" and its expansion into Russia's space.

From five American and Russian political scientists summarizing all the polling data going back more than a decade:

At home, Putin has been emphasizing that NATO is to blame for the ratcheting up of tensions, and the public appears to share this view. Three in 4 Russians we surveyed think NATO will try to weaken their country if Putin does not stand up to it. Consistently over many years, surveys show that Russians see NATO as a threat even as they want good relations with the West.

While Russians oppose a broader conflict in Ukraine and would rather not approach the West as an antagonist, standing up to NATO is a popular theme. It’s likely that a strategy of hard-nosed and prolonged negotiations would be more popular with Putin’s domestic audience than armed intervention.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-12 15:31|| 2022-02-12 15:31|| Front Page Top

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