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NickB79

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22. Putin couldn't take Europe if he wanted to

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Sun Jan 19, 2025, 08:42 PM

Jan 19

Even without the US in NATO, his military couldn't defeat Poland alone, much less the rest of the Continent.

What I expect is that China will eventually start to claim some of Russian Siberia as being historically part of China proper, now that Russia's military has been decimated in Ukraine. We'll see how Russia responds to a war on two fronts.

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