Putin Didn’t Expect Romania to Move This Fast in Moldova
Some Moldovans want to reunify with Romania, but that would put Russian forces inside NATO because Russia is helping separatists in the east.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21MVzWXhk4Q
Tag: Putin
How Kazakhstan is Hedging Against a Russian Invasion
Russia has threatened to invade Kazakhstan. Russia is producing more weapons than it has in a long time. If it didn’t need them in Ukraine, it could use them to invade Kazakhstan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANW_qQFXAyk
Putin Wanted Moldova… Now He’s Losing Transnistria Instead
Russia likes to heavily support breakaway regions to have influence in a country and to weaken and divide those who may oppose Russia’s power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxVmB0rvCE
The Failure of Russian Capitalism With Bill Browder
Russia’s privatization after the Cold War, failed partially because the Russian government was too weak. It could not enforce property rights and the rule of law. Instead, the government was corrupted by the oligarchs. When Putin took over, he exchanged many oligarchs for one–himself.
When the U.S. tries to deregulate for potentially good reasons, and avoids taxes, we need to be careful that we are not setting up our own oligarchs who avoid helpful taxes and regulations at the expense of the people.
https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/the-failure-of-russian-capitalism-with-bill-browder
Russia Does NOT Want You to Know the Truth About Their Nukes
Putin doesn’t want to use nuclear weapons. If he did, he risks the destruction of his country. Putin, like the Soviet Union in history, uses nuclear weapons as bluster to threaten countries whose leaders and people believe the likelihood of Russia using nukes is higher than it is. Trump is scared. He’s happy to use or threaten military force against countries without nukes, but Russia invades its neighbor in a war of conquest while committing many atrocities, and Trump is obsessed with peace, even, at times, weakening support to Ukraine to appease Putin. Letting Russia gain things with nuclear threats increases the incentive for other countries to get nukes, and one of those countries may be more willing to actually use them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUspOj8Ee0
What Happened to Russia’s Troops in Africa?
Russia intervenes in Africa not just for control over resources, but to compete against the West for influence. Russia can avoid sanctions and global condemnation by having African countries vote with them. Russia uses private military companies that in theory are independent, but in reality are arms of the Russian state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVLBitv_A_4
We just got played
Putin easily manipulates Trump, creating erratic support for Ukraine, helping Russia’s war effort.
Lindsay Graham is Trump’s little bitch. The once proud senator can’t speak without sucking up to his daddy.
Enhanced sanctions from Congress keep getting delayed because of Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Rp9tjYPZI
EU pushes back on Trump’s demand Ukraine cede territory to Putin
“Ukraine shouldn’t have to give up territory as part of a peace deal with Russia, the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump pushed Kyiv to give up land to end the war.
“If we just give away the territories, then this gives a message to everybody that you can just use force against your neighbors and get what you want,” Kallas told journalists in Luxembourg after a meeting of foreign ministers. “I think this is very dangerous. That’s why we have the international law in place, [so] that nobody does that.”
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“What you can conquer back is one question, but the other question is also what do you recognize as the territory of another country?” said Kallas, a former prime minister of Estonia. “I come from a country that was occupied for 50 years, but [a] majority of the countries in the world didn’t recognize them to be Russian territories. And that also meant a lot.””
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-kaja-kallas-pushes-back-on-donald-trump-demand-ukraine-cede-territory-to-russia-vladimir-putin/
Trump told Zelenskyy he’d try to end the war ‘on the current line’ in difficult White House meeting
““With a single phone call, Putin appears to have changed President Trump’s mind on Ukraine once again,” a second person familiar with the negotiations told POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-us-donald-trump-tense-white-house-meeting/
Hear what Trump says he told Putin about Tomahawk missiles during call
Trump seems easily manipulated by Putin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47XITR7MLXU