Consequences for Russia of loss in Syria:
1. Reminder that Russia often loses wars;
2. Difficulty in maintaining colonial extraction in Africa;
3. Possibility of new pipelines to Europe;
4. Doctrine of supporting dictators fails.
1. Reminder that Russia often loses wars;
2. Difficulty in maintaining colonial extraction in Africa;
3. Possibility of new pipelines to Europe;
4. Doctrine of supporting dictators fails.
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That said, natural gas is on it's way out and demand is down sharply in Europe, unlikely new pipelines will be built now.
Proposals like this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar–Turkey_pipeline
11. Turkey evening up an asymmetric relationship with Russia;
12. Less refugee-based blackmail
Feel free to look at (and criticize) our own list! https://bsky.app/profile/sonarrow.bsky.social/post/3lcxyiarwss23
Ukraine: taking notes
s 1st reign. Will they abandon this?
Better invest that money in storage. w/e
I wouldn't be shutting down fission until fusion's available. But I'm probably more optimistic there than most b/c of high temperature superconducting magnets. https://taoofscientism.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/the-high-temperature-superconductor-revolution-in-magnetic-confinement-fusion/
I don't believe lithium is the future for grid storage.
Lisbon to Warsaw is 2,763.87 km by air.
5. Greater difficulty in exporting stolen Ukrainian grain etc
6. Massively increased difficulty of using forces in Mediterranean to apply political pressure/spoiling efforts, power projection.
8. Removal of last mutual russia-IRGC interest, besides hating 'the west'
1. 6000 trained and equiped troops on their way to Ukraine
2. 20 million citizens of country turned into non-existen GDP puppet state used for military excersises and weapon tests are out of dictator.
3. Putin concentrates his attention on his newly acquired puppet show about to begin in 2025.
And why was Iran's embassy looted, but not Russia's?
So, how many of these experienced troops does Putin now have to move against Ukraine?