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Foreign Affairs

TexasTowelie

(117,529 posts) Thu Nov 14, 2024, 05:50 PM Nov 14

The average TV-watching Russian may just forget who attacked who in this war.

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"The Kyiv regime continues terror against the peaceful population of Russia" - Break the Fake - TVP World (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 14 OP

question. SleeplessinSoCal Dec 16 #2

I'd assumed it was the natural resources. SleeplessinSoCal Dec 16 #4

(40,495 posts)

1. How long until future SOS Little Marco Rubio says it, parroting his new pal, Vlad?

Thu Nov 14, 2024, 06:02 PM

Nov 14

(9,739 posts)

2. question.

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 01:36 AM

Dec 16

Any take on this theory?

"Putin is desperately trying to reverse Russia’s population crisis and sees Ukraine as a solution, experts say

........In an analysis in Foreign Policy magazine on Dec. 6, they drew a parallel with "mourning wars" during the 17th and 18th centuries, when Native American tribes kidnapped women and children from other tribes to offset losses from wars or diseases."

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-is-desperately-trying-to-reverse-russia-s-population-crisis-and-sees-ukraine-as-a-solution-experts-say/ar-AA1vUtsM

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3. I read early in 2022 that one of the goals of the war was to relieve the demographic crisis in Russia.

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 02:04 AM

Dec 16

However, the demographics in Ukraine aren't much more favorable.

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4. I'd assumed it was the natural resources.

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 02:58 AM

Dec 16

Zelensky offering resources to Syria only makes that reason more believable.