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Originally Posted by Carth
You're saying that Europe is right to dither about hoping Ukraine can pull off a miracle?
Either Russia are on the march or they're not . .
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Once again, for those at the back who can’t (or won’t) pay attention …
Russia *needs* an incursion into Nato territory now more than ever. European Nato is what’s keeping Ukraine in business and the likeliest way of stopping that is to fracture the alliance. They don’t need to cross an allied border with 10,000 men. They just need to ‘crash’ a helicopter 5 miles over the border, then send in a ‘rescue’ mission which requires them to set up logistics chains back across the border to Russia. Then they sit and wait to see what Nato does. If Nato dithers, Russia can probe harder. And in the meantime, the squabbling between the Nato members who understand that Russia needs a hard slap in the face if it puts a single pair of boots on Nato territory, and those who continue to argue for Russia’s legitimate interests, makes it harder to deal with the next action Russia takes, possibly in ‘defence’ of Russian-speaking citizens of the Baltic states.