Originally Posted by
tartare
The more one thinks about it, the more it would appear that a prolonged war may actually play into NATO's rest of the worlds hands in one sense.
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FIxed that for ya. The Russians have been harrassing most of the world but especially its neighbours (eg Georgia, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia etc) for decades (or centuries, or millenias). Not to mention the smaller entities within the Russian Federation that twould probably do much better wihtout the Russians stealing their resources (eg. Sakha republic, very rich in resources eg biggest producer of diamonds in Russia, gold, zinc, silver, molybdenum, oil, gas, coal etc but very poor since the russkies have been abusing them for centuries). Imagine if all the riches of the Oligharcs would've been used for peoples benefit and without the hard core Russian corruption leading the governemntal funds to the meditterranean and London real estate.
Only thing holding all of it together was the Russian military power which is now diminishing leading to everyone else seeing their opportunity arising to get rid of the oppressor. Now we are at the edge of historical events, very good examples are China announcing that Kazakhstan is under their protection and Armenia wawing US flags on the streets.