Has it? I guess I don’t know just how “disputed” the breakaway territories were before the start of the SMO, but if you include them as de facto Russian territory it doesn’t seem like the maps shifted all that much
I can't find it anymore because Google searches are polluted with propaganda and I don't know how credible this is but I saw a map of Russias nuke detectors
They range it covers are all cone shaped and because of the way the Western facing ones are positioned, there's actually a small Blindspot in the Eastern part of Donbas
If US stationed nukes there, they would not be able to detect them early in launch
I think #4 is correct, but if Russia had leaned more heavily on economic/political methods of countering Ukraine and the west it would've - imo - just been kicking the can on this whole process for a few more years. They'd already been trying that approach before the SMO started. This whole thing certainly could've been avoided but it takes two to tango and Russia couldn't have unwound the tension solely by itself
#4 is questionable, because no matter how much Russia avoided the last option of invasion, US/NATO would just keep provoking.
You say that like this option ended the provocation. It’s only increased
Its pushed a massive Nazi and NATO threat further away from their borders thus far so it did improve their nations safety
Has it? I guess I don’t know just how “disputed” the breakaway territories were before the start of the SMO, but if you include them as de facto Russian territory it doesn’t seem like the maps shifted all that much
I can't find it anymore because Google searches are polluted with propaganda and I don't know how credible this is but I saw a map of Russias nuke detectors
They range it covers are all cone shaped and because of the way the Western facing ones are positioned, there's actually a small Blindspot in the Eastern part of Donbas
If US stationed nukes there, they would not be able to detect them early in launch
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TBH the only reason I considered that there might be a point to #4 is because it's Mark Ames position, but perhaps he's not immune to liberalism.
I think #4 is correct, but if Russia had leaned more heavily on economic/political methods of countering Ukraine and the west it would've - imo - just been kicking the can on this whole process for a few more years. They'd already been trying that approach before the SMO started. This whole thing certainly could've been avoided but it takes two to tango and Russia couldn't have unwound the tension solely by itself