Someone out there is starting a hiding race for nukes, maybe a lot of govs. Probably not Iran, because everyone is looking at them. But everyone who wants to be safe from their beligerant neighbors has to be thinking about. Wonder what the stans are up to?
Yes, pissing away nuclear nonproliferation in an attempt to depose Putin in a Moscow Maidan jerkoff fantasy was a big, big, big mistake that can’t be fixed just by firing Vicky Nuland.
But, Russia isn’t going anywhere, ever.
If the CIA hadn’t color revolutioned Ukraine twice in ten years the war never would have happened, a million people now dead and wounded would be fine, and NPT more sound.
That would have been a much better outcome.
The US plan, as detailed in the 2019 Rand Corporation paper "Overextending Russia", was to create a Ukrainistan on Russia's border, of neverending conflict that would weaken it till its government collapsed, just as it has now successfully done in Syria.
The US first accomplished a conflict with Russia by color-revolutioning Georgia and having it attack Russian peacekeepers. The next phase was to do the same using Ukraine, a much larger country as a battering ram.
It's just not true, I was there. They are extremely tired of Russian interference. You don't understand what the Russians have put them through. It's a long horrible history. Not every damn this is about us.
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But, Russia isn’t going anywhere, ever.
That would have been a much better outcome.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html