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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts) Mon Mar 7, 2022, 11:58 AM Mar 2022

Ukrainian MP: Putin Will Not Stop At Ukraine, Would Go Into Eastern Poland

Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun details her experiences during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and why she is hopeful for more military aid for the Ukrainian forces.

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Ukrainian MP: Putin Will Not Stop At Ukraine, Would Go Into Eastern Poland (Original Post) L. Coyote Mar 2022 OP

And the Baltic States samsingh Mar 2022 #1

Shouldn't the Baikal and Amur republics be part of China? Yenisei and Okhota too, of course. L. Coyote Mar 2022 #2

i don't know samsingh Mar 2022 #3

I was thinking the Baltic States too, since they actually border on Russia. Ray Bruns Mar 2022 #9

Kalingrad borders on Poland! Lucky Luciano Mar 2022 #10

moldova and romania as well lapfog_1 Mar 2022 #4

Meanwhile, the net effect might be the breakup of the Russian Federation. L. Coyote Mar 2022 #5

the russian population is in decline. lapfog_1 Mar 2022 #6

I get that he has high ambitions. Gore1FL Mar 2022 #7

If Putin is going to invade any NATO country, I would think it would be Lithuania first. marie999 Mar 2022 #8

Not how I'd do it. Igel Mar 2022 #11

samsingh

(17,596 posts)

1. And the Baltic States

Reply to L. Coyote (Original post)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:02 PM

Mar 2022

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)

2. Shouldn't the Baikal and Amur republics be part of China? Yenisei and Okhota too, of course.

Reply to samsingh (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:10 PM

Mar 2022

Wasn't Okhota once part of Alaska? Just askin ....

samsingh

(17,596 posts)

3. i don't know

Reply to L. Coyote (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:14 PM

Mar 2022

Ray Bruns

(4,095 posts)

9. I was thinking the Baltic States too, since they actually border on Russia.

Reply to samsingh (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 02:09 PM

Mar 2022

Lucky Luciano

(11,254 posts)

10. Kalingrad borders on Poland!

Reply to Ray Bruns (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 04:53 PM

Mar 2022

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)

4. moldova and romania as well

Reply to L. Coyote (Original post)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:43 PM

Mar 2022

All he has to believe is that NATO is a paper tiger...

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)

5. Meanwhile, the net effect might be the breakup of the Russian Federation.

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:49 PM

Mar 2022

Why should people living in a republic next to Alaska remain in the orb of and under the thumb of a declining Russia?

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)

6. the russian population is in decline.

Reply to L. Coyote (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 12:55 PM

Mar 2022

The natural population, a number calculated from registered deaths and births, excluding the impact of migration, declined by 997,000 between October 2020 and September 2021, the demographer Alexei Raksha has calculated.

Gore1FL

(21,132 posts)

7. I get that he has high ambitions.

Reply to L. Coyote (Original post)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 01:37 PM

Mar 2022

At this point, I would have to understand what army he would intend to use to do this.

marie999

(3,334 posts)

8. If Putin is going to invade any NATO country, I would think it would be Lithuania first.

Reply to L. Coyote (Original post)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 01:43 PM

Mar 2022

If has Ukraine along with Kaliningrad, Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine he will have a bigger border with Poland. I don't think he will invade any NATO country if he wins in Ukraine because the Russian army will have to regroup first considering the Russian army casualties in Ukraine. I am not even sure he wants all of Ukraine. These are just my thoughts, I don't have any facts.

Igel

(35,300 posts)

11. Not how I'd do it.

Reply to marie999 (Reply #8)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 08:53 PM

Mar 2022

Then again, I'm a high-school science teacher who studied Slavic languages, so what do I know?

I'd have a build-up in Kaliningrad. And along the Baltic border.

Push the Baltics into the sea as Kaliningrad assaults Poland. By the time NATO responds, Baltics are no more and the Baltic-deployed troops can head SW.

If Finland and Sweden were to be in NATO or NATO allied, that would be harder. Gee, didn't they voice some suggestion along that direction, and didn't Putin's staff engage in serious fit-pitching at such a threat?

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