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2024-02-25 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

SVO anniversary: two years that changed everything forever

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Posted by badanov 2024-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [33 views ] Top

#1 Russia is back to being Russia: paranoid and aggressive, and surviving.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-25 01:35|| 2024-02-25 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 ...though not paranoid enough about the East. The only direction it has been conquered and occupied by.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-25 08:13|| 2024-02-25 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Oh, they are paranoid enough about China. On the other hand, Chinese know Russians are willing to use nukes.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-25 10:19|| 2024-02-25 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^ It is why Leon Trosky, then Soviet defense commissar, formed the first of the Soviet machine gun/artillery divisions, unique formations only to the eastern oblasts.

And probably being used in Ukraine.

Posted by badanov 2024-02-25 11:10|| 2024-02-25 11:10|| Front Page Top

#5 What was that about Chinese maps citing current Russian territory as Chinese?

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-25 11:13|| 2024-02-25 11:13|| Front Page Top

#6 ..well, yeah, they claim Taiwan, Korea, most of North Vietnam as once part of China, so....it's the old what was once ours belongs to us again.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-25 12:43|| 2024-02-25 12:43|| Front Page Top

#7 The Chinese have been quietly filtering into Russia’s far southeast for several decades, colonizing mostly empty villages as the Russian population moved closer to the comforts of the western cities.

This was planned, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if there are Chinese maps preemptively showing the future annexation. — just as they’ve had plans in place for winning the future war against America.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-25 21:11|| 2024-02-25 21:11|| Front Page Top

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