@Justicar the idea that russia couldn't just send a million soldiers to steamroll ukraine overnight confuses the hell out of me and i don't get what europe is talking about. This is almost so comical it feels like a setup. The awful thing is if the EU scam to get taxpayer money for "defense" goes sideways and war actually does start - why stop at merely a few billion euros when we can have a long, drawn out war?

this is the worst timeline, because it feels everyone is all in on war

@picofarad i think russia was always on the backburner as the baddie to go against in the future, due to resources, and because the SMO happened it kinda forced the west's hand prematurely and they just had to go all in. they just did not count on the fact that europe has been eroded since hilary killed gadaffi and merkel opened the borders. europe is "the old continent" and that also means it became poor in natural resources, which russia has.