Monday, April 11, 2022

Has Mr. Putin's Expansionist Plan Gone Sideways?


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And, no, we're not talking about the outer reaches of the Donbas.

Instead, we're talking about Scandinavia.

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Here was the situation one month before Mr. Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine:
...There is no mistaking the long-standing animosity between Russia and NATO, with whom Putin’s government broke ties in 2021, calling back its NATO mission in Brussels. For months, Russian officials have been demanding that NATO stop expanding, bar Ukraine and Georgia from joining, and kick out members that have joined since 1997...

Here, apparently, is the situation, now:
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a "massive strategic blunder" that could result in an expansion of Nato as early as this summer, officials have claimed.

According to the Times (of London), US officials reportedly confirmed that membership of the alliance for Sweden and Finland was "a topic of conversation" during talks between Western foreign ministers last week attended by representatives of both Nordic countries.

It is thought the two nations could launch a bid for Nato membership in the coming months in the wake of Russia's widely condemned military assault.

Finland -which shares an 830-mile land border with Russia - is expected to apply for Nato membership by June, with Sweden potentially poised to follow soon after...

If this happens, Mr. Putin will have achieved a feat that not even Mess'r's Stalin, Malenkov, Khruschev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chermenko, combined, could achieve.

Imagine that.

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The next installment of the generation and the propagation of the big lie of US'ian bioweapons labs in Ukraine is coming...Just busy with the end of term stuff and all...The first two installments are here and here...
Image at the top of the post...Finnish and Russian border marks...from RCINet.


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1 comment:

e.a.f. said...

Yes, lies do travel fast. The latest thing I read has Canadians fighting on the front lines in Ukraine, yes our military........
its the smart thing to do for Finland and Sweden. Putin will go after what ever country he can if he wins the war in Ukraine. He won't be happy until he has all of Europe under his thumb. NATO needs to get over Putin's threats of using nuclear arms. If he's got it on his mind, he's going to do it, so might as well give Ukraine what it needs, a no fly zone.

When you're in a fight, make sure you get in the first punch and that the other guy doesn't get up.