Brad Howard, Task & Purpose: The Real Reasons Behind Russia’s Massive Military Exercises
Russian President Vladimir Putin would never invade western Europe.
Lets game it out, just for fun. Russia invades with thousands of tanks, aircraft, and infantry. Europe, beholden to years of low defense budgets, folds. Shortly afterwards, Russia’s economy collapses due to the massive cost of mobilizing it’s military and occupying now refugee-filled, and probably insurgency filled European states. China won’t help anyone because all of this could leave them as the sole superpower. The United States, rising to meet its NATO obligations, possibly retaliates with limited nuclear strikes; Russia does the same. Maybe things escalate from there, although it’s hard to conceive as to why; but even if it doesn’t, the death toll from both war and starvation would become mind-numbingly high — and, to any sane strategic thinker, an impossible price to pay in the interest of a territorial accession.
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WNU Editor: There is a lot of criticisms of this military exercise on Russian social media and other alternative Russian news sources. So if Putin is trying to play to a domestic audience, it is not working. I can only assume that Russian President Putin is sending a message to the U.S. and its allies in Western Europe, as well as to the countries that border Russia.
