At this point Russia can probably drop a nuke on Berlin and Trump will give the rest of the EU and the UK a 3-day ultimatum to surrender Germany, Austria and all of Eastern Europe to stop the cause of the absolutely necessary Russian defense operations.
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This is my fear. For all intents and purposes Article 5 basically says “poke us and the Americans will fire up the meat grinder,” the EU is in a vulnerable position right now since our CVNs may all be tasked with lining up for parade on a whim or whatever bullshit and the US is the overwhelming majority of force in NATO.
This is Russia using our government to make moves.
European countries are hardly helpless without the US. Also, western armies do not fight meat grinder/trench warfare tactics like the Russians, they fight with air supremacy.
One city or the planet (nato n Russia) is a hard call any way you slice it.
tRump is sucking dick all over the world apparently.
This news, coupled with Trump’s mission to get this resolved soon, makes me think that Ruzzia is absolutely in desperation mode
One of their economic ministers wrote in a state journal that shit was bad. Imagine that. Official news, not a leak.
No expert, but lately I've heard they got energy, manufacturing, and money problems. And it's getting worse. I think they've been in desperation mode for a while now.
Apparently Putin is starting to sell off their gold reserves, which is pretty taboo I guess.
Starting? They have sold off over half of it already. The russia collapse has begun.
So far they have sold from state to central bank, i.e. sold on paper but now they have started selling to domestic market
^ BINGO! They were shuffling paper before, now hard currency is leaving the country, a country historically starved of hard currency.