Europe offers platitudes, Trump dithers, and Ukraine and its extraordinary people stand on the brink. Nato must step up, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
Russia’s current military doctrine is to not allow any Western countries to border their territory (utterly stupid military doctrine but that is Soviet era thinking for you).
Kazakhstan isn’t a Western country so there’s no need to attack them. The problem Russia has is all the oligarchs stole the military funding so they now don’t really have anything except a lot of meat that they can throw into the grinder. That sort of works in Ukraine where NATO aren’t prepared to fully deploy, but that changes if Russia attacks them directly. Then the Western military industrial complex will swing into action and God knows what’ll come out the other side.
Of course if they weren’t so aggressive Norway and especially Finland wouldn’t have joined NATO. That’s what I mean about it being a stupid military doctrine, it sort of made sense back in the Soviet era but it has not been updated for the late 20th century, let alone the 21st.
Russia is trying to restore the Soviet Union and Kazakhstan is a key country for that. Especially since it has a massive Russian population similar to Ukraine.
Russia’s current military doctrine is to not allow any Western countries to border their territory (utterly stupid military doctrine but that is Soviet era thinking for you).
Kazakhstan isn’t a Western country so there’s no need to attack them. The problem Russia has is all the oligarchs stole the military funding so they now don’t really have anything except a lot of meat that they can throw into the grinder. That sort of works in Ukraine where NATO aren’t prepared to fully deploy, but that changes if Russia attacks them directly. Then the Western military industrial complex will swing into action and God knows what’ll come out the other side.
Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland: am I a joke to you?
Yeah which is why they’re currently so twitchy.
Of course if they weren’t so aggressive Norway and especially Finland wouldn’t have joined NATO. That’s what I mean about it being a stupid military doctrine, it sort of made sense back in the Soviet era but it has not been updated for the late 20th century, let alone the 21st.
Russia is trying to restore the Soviet Union and Kazakhstan is a key country for that. Especially since it has a massive Russian population similar to Ukraine.