Anticipating What's Next; Examining What the Russian Fears Leads to What is Next - Failure

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), May 23, 2022 at 15:08

Does conquering the Ukraine accomplish a general purpose in the Russian mindset; or does a greater purpose underwrite the less than spectacular series of conquests the region in now enduring for reasons only the Russian leader can artuculate. But here, even as we read of the speech which might have given some insight as to why this latest in a sequence of Rusian expansion of interests, the audience of the UN, EU, NATO, and even those who are settled in the world gallery of observers are speechless in the attempt to detemine where it is the Russian thinks to go; and yet there are clues.
But there are clues that lead to other speculations that if the Russian gets to a place where the insufficiency of the achieved objectives and lack of desired results is in view, where does that place the world in the circumstance of not allowing the Russian to continue for the reasons of containing any extra ambitions and the loss of face in the global community? If the ultimate achievement is gaining a deeper respect from all that surround the Russian and the desires of global dominance are achieved, does this satiate the original cause: or is more to be observed as a perfection of objectives is still being sought: what will the world endure before the end is seen?

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