seriously. that seems to have been The Move for so long now: to press for a diplomatic “pause” to redeploy resources for another major, coordinated strike with all the fancy, expensive weapons and then strike when damage potential is at a maximum.
as it turns out, this repeated use of such a perfidious tactic has now broken the lever of conflict in the “on” position and exposed an exploitable weakness of imperial power: it lacks the capacity for sustained conflict against a regional power and has lost the illusion of control over a major geographic pressure point.
They’ve never actually compromised any of their goals, and never allowed talks with the US to affect what they were doing on the ground. There’s also value for Russia in simply talking to the US because it drives Europeans crazy which creates tensions within NATO.
Russia signed Minsk agreement, allowing Ukraine to successfully rearm and crush internal dissent, while the only thing Russia got was oligarchs selling resources to EU for 8 years longer.
At the time Russia signed Minsk, their economy or industry were still being rebuilt. It’s not like they spent the time just twiddling their thumbs during those agreements. They built up gold reserves, and sufficiently insulated the economy so that when the west cut Russia out of swift and put maximum sanctions on, the didn’t collapse as the west expected it would.
Russian industry didn’t really improve in those 8 years. Some sectors like civil aviation production went to shit completely. It wasn’t a cunning plan, but a disastrous mistake.
I get a funny feeling that the US would’ve used this ceasefire to get troops into position for a land invasion of Iran.
seriously. that seems to have been The Move for so long now: to press for a diplomatic “pause” to redeploy resources for another major, coordinated strike with all the fancy, expensive weapons and then strike when damage potential is at a maximum.
as it turns out, this repeated use of such a perfidious tactic has now broken the lever of conflict in the “on” position and exposed an exploitable weakness of imperial power: it lacks the capacity for sustained conflict against a regional power and has lost the illusion of control over a major geographic pressure point.
Perfidious tactic? I assume you mean non-woke tactic.
several acts of perfidy later
Why won’t they negotiate with me anymore?
they really think everybody is an idiot
Everyone but iran and the dprk is
Seems like Belarus, China, Russia, and Vietnam are on top of their game too.
Nah, Russia has fallen for this again and again.
They’ve never actually compromised any of their goals, and never allowed talks with the US to affect what they were doing on the ground. There’s also value for Russia in simply talking to the US because it drives Europeans crazy which creates tensions within NATO.
Russia signed Minsk agreement, allowing Ukraine to successfully rearm and crush internal dissent, while the only thing Russia got was oligarchs selling resources to EU for 8 years longer.
At the time Russia signed Minsk, their economy or industry were still being rebuilt. It’s not like they spent the time just twiddling their thumbs during those agreements. They built up gold reserves, and sufficiently insulated the economy so that when the west cut Russia out of swift and put maximum sanctions on, the didn’t collapse as the west expected it would.
Russian industry didn’t really improve in those 8 years. Some sectors like civil aviation production went to shit completely. It wasn’t a cunning plan, but a disastrous mistake.
This is what I do in civilization
I also bribe other countries to go to war with the country I want to steal resources from so their military is divided
Following the
strategy well I see
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