17
Russia Raises Alarm Over NATO Drills Aiming to Strangle Kaliningrad Region
(sputnikglobe.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
17 points (74.3% liked)
World News
40342 readers
576 users here now
News from around the world!
Rules:
-
Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
-
No NSFW content
-
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
Yes, it is.
RU is burning its demographic future for marginal territorial gains. It is spending lives and capital faster than it can regenerate them.
Its economy becomes more and more war-dependent, which means peace itself becomes destabilizing.
The brain drain Putins war causes is not a temporary inconvenience, but a strategic wound. They really traded long-term modernization for short-term militarization.
It has pushed Europe into rearmament and made the continent stronger, not weaker. And it is losing access to Western technology faster than it can replace it.
It is becoming China’s junior partner, not an independent great power.
Every year of war raises the cost of any political exit.
They may very well survive the war, but the path they chose consumed the foundations of their own power.
Maybe stop guzzling propaganda there and try engaging with reality. It's absolutely incredible how after 4 years people are still not able to realize they're being lied to.
Who is doing the lying in this scenario? Is it the Russian people who have been told that they have been winning for 4+ years while the frontline barely moves.
Both sides are being fed delicious propaganda buddy, don't act like your shit don't stink.
Truth is Russia has bitten off more than they can chew here, there is no obvious route to Russian victory and it's looking worse and worse for your boys as each day passes.
Which side has been reduced to kidnapping terrified teenagers and 50 year olds into predator vans and shoving them into the front lines with a gun in their backs? Winning armies don't need to do Volksturm or man infantry positions with robots.
When you definitely understand how wars of attrition work.
I find it so funny how a couch political actor thinks he understands politics better than a man who took a broken russia and made it capable of fighting all of nato alone
love how military aid by the west means "all of NATO" but military aid by Iran and North Korea means "alone".
"ICH HABE GANZ ALLEIN EUROPA EROBERT, WÄHREND MIR DIE GENERALITÄT NUR IN DEN RÜCKEN GEFALLEN IST"
One part of you message i dont understand because its written in german, and the other part i dont understand bc its written in removed
Your strawman somehow talks in german, making it even strawier
Are you talking about me?
"Fighting all of NATO" - as a German, I did not know that I was at war with Russia right now. Am I?
I get your anger towards the US. And probably towards the EU. Towards NATO as a whole. Our history is stained with imperialism, and we should all be working against that. Dont falsely assume that I am on the side of the empire.
But this does not necessarily make Russia (or China) some sort of safe haven. Some days ago, I had to argue with US nazis that the US and Russia are the only working democracies left in this world, and Europe is a "autocratic dictatoraship" - which is obviously BS. Our system is FAR from perfect, and we experience propaganda - as does nearly every other state. But Russia, China, and the US are definitly broken systems, and ALL of them are imperialistic. So are you telling me that you are against evil NATO empire, therefore you are rooting for the evil Russian empire?
Russia and China are imperialist countries as much as a car is an animal
Yup, you're right. Sorry to have bothered you.
Please define imperialism, explain how your definition has any analytical value, and how it applies to Russia, China, and the US but not the European bloc.
I can see the argument for Russia to an extent, but how is China imperialistic? From what I understand they've helped lift up nations in the global south (and not in a "do this or else we will overthrow your government" kind of way). I don't think they've invaded another country for quite some time either.
Ah, you're not on the side of the usa empire. You see that it's falling and instead make the new euro empire! With the same colonialist values, but without military power! What could go wrong?!
God people doesn't hate Europeans enough.
And the glorious Europeans countries are not imperialistic?????????????????????????????????
Imagine living in a shithole like Germany and thinking that China has a broken system. 🤣
No, it isn't. And putting your wishful thinking as justifications is not how reality works.