Nah, it’s Estonia next, Russia isn’t messing around anymore and they figure MN will fall into place without much more work.
But Estonia and the rest of the baltics have to go back, they’ve been too ‘uppity’ lately, and need to learn from the example of Ukraine like everyone else.
The only surprising thing is that putin waited 8 years after taking Crimea to go for the rest of Ukraine, if he’d tried earlier he would have had a much better shot and we would have cared much less, but when you haven’t meaningfully grown your economy, the only alternative is conquest.
Nah, it’s Estonia next, Russia isn’t messing around anymore and they figure MN will fall into place without much more work.
But Estonia and the rest of the baltics have to go back, they’ve been too ‘uppity’ lately, and need to learn from the example of Ukraine like everyone else.
The only surprising thing is that putin waited 8 years after taking Crimea to go for the rest of Ukraine, if he’d tried earlier he would have had a much better shot and we would have cared much less, but when you haven’t meaningfully grown your economy, the only alternative is conquest.
Rumors are, he planned to start with Trump’s first presidency, but then Covid happened.