Why did he risk his entire country's future for a bunch of shitty, impoverished oblasts full with 70 year old pensioners?Russia is already fucking 100 times the size of Ukraine.Sounds like too much risk for too little reward. The West thinks someone who invades a European country is literally the devil. He couldn't have picked a worse project.
>>536199935>1 trillion dollar nuclear power plant>40% of the global wheat supply>massive rare earth and lithium deposits>industrial plants (mariupol)>land the size of entire European countries like Austria>Black Sea port>Historical lands>No more gas pipeline to Germany (enjoy your expensive Ameican/Noweigan fuel)Lul the shilling wouldnt be necessary if you were winning faggo
>>536199935Ukraine and Belarus are the natural staging points for an invasion into Russia, those borders are just about indefensible. They want to keep our military infrastructure out of them, because if allowed, we will turn them into regime change springboards. Later in the century we need to take on China, and the best way to do that would be to take over Russia and put a string of our bases across China's northern border - basically do to them what we are looking to do to Ukraine. Russians naturally don't want us to do that, and neither do the chinks.
>>536200122Year 5 of special operation
he has aspirations to remake the soviet union, which failed and fell for a) a reason and b) deservedalways remember: russia wants all of Europe. they made that clear after ww2, literally said so on record
>>536200122>some russo-israeli dual citizen oligarchs will profit off plundered Ukrainian resources>this is totally worth irreparably damaging Russian demographicsHow has the SMO helped the ethnic Russian people, themselves, as a whole? Are they better off now, than they were before the 3 day SMO? >Israel relies on Russia for a vast majority of its wheat imports. Where do the Russians get the wheat? Picrel.Bonus info on the effect of the SMO on Russians and their society/demographics:First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Denis Manturov states that Russia will receive an "unlimited" number of indians to replace the (dead) russians lost in the 72 hour SMO. 800,000 is the minimum needed immediately.https://files.catbox.moe/zi1r7t.mp4 A muscovite explains that they are already showing up in the factory, and they are receiving more hours than the muscovites.https://files.catbox.moe/7d50us.mp4 A muscovite explains that all of the little rural villages in Russia are dying because of the 3 day SMOhttps://files.catbox.moe/f7kicc.mp4
>>536199935America's enemies always have some trouble at their bordersHmm
>>536201017You hit all the nafo troon talking points, congrats!100% bullshitYou are a retarded faggot shill
>>536199935He thought the west would back down and it would be an easy victory. It would've been if the US hadn't fought insurgency for 20 years and taught the Ukrainians how to absolutely bog down the Russians. Now he's so far in he cannot back down or otherwise risk losing authority amongst the oligarchs and breaking the country. His hope now is that the US must divert its resources elsewhere like Iran. Putin and Zelensky should negotiate a separate peace but theyre both egomaniacs afraid of their own populace, so the meat grinder will continue unabated.
>>536199935>Finis Germania momentoFuture? What future do you mean? Progressively becoming a US puppet state like the rest of Europe?Fuck that
>>536199935Wars can revitalize economies. They can create national pride and social energy. I think that's why Putin did it. He and his boyars reached maximum extraction economy. They are taking a maximal share of the wealth. Outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg, the entire country has been raped into abject poverty. Instead of making his boyars fund revitalization investments in Russia, he decided to manufacture a national struggle to awaken the common man and, ultimately, to energize him to create more value for the boyars, and for himself.
>>536200122>massive rare earth and lithium depositsRare earths are not actually rare to find in the earth on an industrial scale. What's rare is a mature extraction and especially refinement infrastructure. Refining rare earths into usable inputs is incredibly dirty work. It creates huge pollution. China cornered the market both because they subsidized it heavily and because they tolerate the pollution.
>>536199935Because he wants his hostage countries from the Yalta agreement back. All of them.
>>536201989wartime economy doesn't revitalize economies anon. every dollar spent in military is a dollar not spent towards more intrinsically valuable economic boosting activities. printing so much money you inflate away the debt and create the "healthy" economy is like repeatedly injecting yourself with silver
>>536200122There are no extractable rare earths in ukraine You bought into the scam
>>536199935youre an idiot or must be young do you know how many trillions he has gained taking those oblasts?well in on sector alone its 3.5 trillion {pick yah currency}
