Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Sep 21, 2022 at 14:00
As the preparations for expanding the confrontation between NATO and the emergent revived former Soviet ambitions of the Russian leader and his determination that he has been backed into corner for desiring a piece of the Ukraine that history has lost track of for the varying reasons of conflicted empires, the global implications are becoming more diffused as the world looks at threats from all hemispheres and where does one think the trigger to increase the stakes is approaching from?
Certainly, the Russian has all the stakes covered; for if not, that gamble would be misread and too many are going to lose if the wrong hand is played out.
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