• Boris Johnson has threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with "an

    From Rusty Wyse@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 4 11:32:17 2022
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    Boris Johnson has threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with "an extremely tough package of economic sanctions" if he invades Ukraine, Could a military option also be threatened or would this escalate an already tense situation?
    Russia won’t invade Ukraine, not because of Johnson’s laughable threat, but because it is exactly what the Western elites and the Ukrainian government desperately want Russia to do and exactly what Russia has carefully avoided to in the last 8 years.
    Because Russia invading Ukraine would mean taking on its shoulders the burden called Ukraine. A failed state. A very low living standard state with poor infrastructures, an economy in ruin and a balkanized population. Ukrainians are notorious for
    emigrating in the EU, Canada and Russia. It has been going on for decades, but things have become far worse since 2014. To bear the costs of fixing Ukraine and put it on the same levels of the Russian Federation, would be an economic and political
    nightmare. Russian citizens would never support the idea of paying with their taxes for Ukraine’s problems (especially after all the not so nice things that Ukrainians have said and done to Russians).

    Russia just needs US missiles to stay away from its borders. And this is the only reason why Russia is interested in Ukrainian affairs. If NATO stays out of Ukraine, Russia will have nothing else to say in regard. But NATO countries are growing in debts
    and social instability day after day, with stagnating economies and a nihilist attitude. And this is why we have NATO military interventions around the world, with abysmal results and millions of dead people. But the bad guys are the others of course…

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