That would be a full on act of war against N.A.T.O, so no, they aren't going to do that.
That would be a full on act of war against N.A.T.O, so no, they aren't going to do that.
Well, it was a formal suspension only, something that can be reversed with the stroke of a pen.
Once Russia won, there would be a massive lobby campaign about how it's pointless to cry over spilled milk, keeping it closed won't change anything, might aswell go back to business.
I'd give it 25% for Hungary, 10% for Romania.
Was or wasn't, in that scenario it would have been definitely lost, and no way to reverse that, while money is being wasted by not normalizing relations with Russia and Russia run Ukraine. Hell, the situation in Belarus may have been an incidental test of western reaction, and the result was, that it Russia violently quells a democratic movement in one of it's satellites, the West will just whine a lot, add a few sanctions, and do nothing meaningful - so they can live with that.Interesting approach. But still, fucking over the Ukrainian people like that should severely ruin Germany's relations with other Western countries in this TL. Unless the entire West (or at least most of it) will come to believe that Ukraine was a lost cause, similar to Afghanistan.
Let's be honest, holding Afghanistan is not important to the West in any way, once you scratch through the dramatics about women's rights and Afghans being poor.And even there, the Taliban government still isn't recognized by anyone over a year later.
It would be, but the victim would not be available to complain.That makes sense. Such a move would, of course, be perceived as a stab-in-the-back similar to Teschen 1938, though that specific takeover was bloodless, so a bit less hurt feelings.
Perhaps in your fantasies, sure
Given that in that time the southern front has all but collapsed, I am guessing not.Hey buddy. Been a few days.
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It would be, but the victim would not be available to complain.
I wonder what the odds of Zelensky becoming a dictator post war are? Ukraine is definitely going to be a clusterfuck after this ends, Especially when you consider how many different groups who don't like each other are now armed and experienced.
Actually, Ukraine right now is most likely more united than it ever was. Seriously.
For the moment its united but after the war things might turn pretty nasty.
I doubt it. At least not if Western aid money and Russian reparations money will be flowing in huge amounts and won't get stolen by corrupt Sovoks.
Russian reparations are almost certainly not going to happen, Western aid is also another suspect thing especially from the US.
Wouldn't agreeing to NS2 have, in theory, made Putin less likely to attack Ukraine since he'd have more of a stake in preserving economic ties with the West?
But even if Putin would have taken Ukraine in 3 days, Germany would have still cancelled Nord Stream 2, so Putin would have still lost in regards to NS2 specifically.
Hey buddy. Been a few days.
You gonna reply, or...?
That would imply they plan on giving them real trainingIt'll be a hard time for Russian forces for the rest of this year because apparently the freshly mobilized meat shields will be available to use by January at the soonest AFAIK.
Yeah and even two to three months is not enough to train someone to be an effective soldier capable of operating as a part of a cohesive unit and performing combined arms warfare (and let's not even mention cooperation between different branches of military).That would imply they plan on giving them real training
Speaking of cohesion…
Yeah. This whole Russian shtick of just grabbing any active servicemember from their trained job and just giving them a tank with pisspoor training / giving them a rifle and redesignating them as infantry and giving them orders to go and attack is straight out of clownworld. This really highlights why in terms of professionalism, competency, etc... - wise Russian military falls a lightyear behind US, Canadian and other European militaries.