Subj : Russia's Endgame
To   : MRO
From : Moondog
Date : Wed Sep 28 2022 08:43 am

 Re: Russia's Endgame
 By: MRO to Moondog on Tue Sep 27 2022 10:26 pm

>   Re: Russia's Endgame
>   By: Moondog to Arelor on Tue Sep 27 2022 04:02 pm
>
>  > Sad part is even if Putin is removed from his seat, whoever moves in isn'
>  > going to be more friendly to the West, or is going to be cast from the sa
>  > material as Putin.  I can imagine Putin is the type who surrounds himself
>  > with people he is not afraid of taking his place.  Anyone who has that
>  > ambition is in a lumber camp in Siberia or on the bottom of a cold lake t
>  > doesn't give up it's dead.
>
> putin is very prideful and he has to have some type of win out of this or we
>
> they should have trump negociate with him.

Putin drew first blood years ago by taking Crimea and the Donbas regions.
Ukraine will not negotiate until they return those regions back to Ukrainian
control.  I can't see a way for Putin to save face, except for claiming he
did this all to clean out warehouses of Soviet era equipment.

I noticed the Russian people protest the war and mobilization, but do not
openly blame Putin's decision making.  Part of that may be propaganda,
otherwise it is being clever and avoiding being put on a political trouble
maker list.

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