Increasing Pressure to Thwart Western Resolve - Belarus Participation Not Unexpected - But Complicating Answers

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jun 26, 2022 at 22:17

The question is now posed, does anyone now have any reservations that the Russian ambition to reframe the Caucasus region into a post-Soviet bastion of the Russian's devising and extending into the Middle East is actually a long-term former Soviet goal that could hace been predicted when the 44th America administration allowed a Russian presence to gain the beginnings of the regional activity that is centering in Damascus.
Expansionism was a former Soviet expression of dominance in teh 80's and only now does there seem to be a certain modicum of success in a world that has lost any sense of what it takes to obtain any peaceful outcome. As the Russian continues to push the barriers that have becmoe increasingly harder to manage any containment of the Russian's ambitions, the other players in the region are just as tenuous in their own attempts to maintain their own placement and futures, the Iranian Islamic Regime's nuclear threat becong more real as the centerfuges and stockpiles are increased without witness; Turkiye's own intersecting desires to maintain its own frame of references in the 'Palestinian' question of feigned sovereignty; and from the Far East both China and North Korea keeping the currnet American 46th Administration guessing as to when defending Taiwan will be an issue when the ME finally refocuses its total attention on Israel. Then NATO will have its hands rally full and the American response will be less than willing since their leadership will be MIA.

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