Quote (Gala @ 21 Feb 2024 08:53)
Russia has only been doing this on their terms from the very beginning. That said their ultimate goal is to destroy Ukraine and its identity, nothing else.
To be precise it's not Russia's people that want to destroy Ukraine but Putin and some of his fellow friends.
Also their alliances reach way further than just China and India. Basically any state which has been falling from grace with the western alliance.
Among those are mostly despot and autocratic states.
Russia is being delivered technique to do precise strikes with their missiles, which they don't produce to this day.
Russia stated their objectives from day one. They continue to maintain their objectives. Why would I believe your opinions regarding the objectives of a nation you view as enemy rather than their stated objectives?
As to the India/China portion, you've failed to understand the point. The #1 failing in Russia's supply chain caused by all the sanctions is in tech. While the tech they receive from China and India is somewhat cheap garbage, it's good enough to get the job done, given ample replacements, until the Russians can ramp up their own tech production industry.
Far from "weakening" Russia militarily, what cutting Russia off from Western Economies has truly accomplished is to expose the weaknesses that 30 years of relative peace have created in their in-house production capacities. And those are weaknesses they have spent the last 2 years learning and correcting. Far from ending weaker than they began, Russia will be far stronger, and more self-sufficient than ever.
If you truly believe Russia is your enemy, the entire conflict is a pure and unmitigated disaster.
This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Feb 21 2024 07:07pm