> those are definitely short term goals but it's not as if that's all putin wants and then he'll forever more be a good boy. no, they are long-term goals. russia calculated that it's better to start a war now and secure those resources, lose trade with the west for 10-15 years or less than to lose those natural resources in ukraine and be irrelevant to europe in 5-10 years + potentially lose access to black sea in the future. > russian propagandists are already preparing their people for the idea of more invasions russian propagandists are same as nafo retards, they think that their countries are fighting some moral wars when everything is just pure geopolitics and economy. they wouldn't want to hear that hundreds of thousands of russians need to die for some natural gas, recreating some historic empires sound more romantic. same goes for nafo retards, they can't fathom that nato is not some bastion of morals but they just want to cripple russia economically, fighting moral evil from their tolkien books - mordor is way more romantic.
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