Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

Russian General Admits Ukraine Just a 'Stepping Stone' to Invade Europe

A key Russian general who Russian President Vladimir Putin promoted this week views the invasion of Ukraine as a mere "stepping stone" to further conflict with Europe.

"I think there's still plenty of time to spend. It is pointless to talk about a specified period. If we are talking about Eastern Europe, which we will have to, of course then it will be longer," the general said.

"Ukraine is only a stepping stone?" the interviewer then asked.

"Yes, absolutely. It is only the beginning," Mordvichev responded, who went on to say that the war "will not stop here."

Ahead of the invasion of Ukraine, Putin laid out a vision to reconstitute the long-defunct Russian Empire's territories into a unified block.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-general...pe-1825776

   I thinks it’s both bigger and simpler than that. There is a block of authoritarian states who are uniting against the very ideal of democracy simply because they have no other choice than doing that in order to be able to survive.
 

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   One very shocking idea expressed during yesterday’s pro-democracy in Iran demonstration in Washington DC is this:
 
   “There is no going forward with today’s Iranian regime. The only realistic way forward for the West is to start working with the people of Iran instead who want to end this regime and switch to a secular democracy”. (Sorry I lost the web link)
 
   Also look at Western Africa:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/16...y-alliance
 
Putin is organizing series of Anti-French coup d’état in the region now look how clever they are and are forming a new alliance to counter any military intervention that aims to remove them from power and reestablish free elections. (Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso).
 
Countries like Hungary, Serbia, even Poland, the new Eat-Roman Empire, India, Saudi Arabia + South-Africa are also countries that can quickly move from one camp to another.
 
Finally China is not hiding its plans for World domination either. So the only issue in Ukraine is that it can turn into some sort of quagmire that further weakens the West as a whole (with enormous financial consequences for the West in the Years to come) and give a free hand to China to further develop things like AI technologies and transform itself into a new Soviet Union or Eastern Block.
 
I don’t think my fear has no basis because in WWI while Europe was spending all the resources it had on a War of stagnation, The US and Japan had used this opportunity to become industrial giants and becoming more powerful than the older super-powers (mainly France and England).
 

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