Con la caduta di Assad, il sogno di Putin di dominare il mondo si sta trasformando in un incubo
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/22/with-assads-fall-putins-dream-of-world-domination-is-turning-into-a-nightmare
di JackRogers3
Con la caduta di Assad, il sogno di Putin di dominare il mondo si sta trasformando in un incubo
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/22/with-assads-fall-putins-dream-of-world-domination-is-turning-into-a-nightmare
di JackRogers3
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Let’s not let the old grandfather fulfill his dream of ruling the whole world.
Uhm, has The Guardian forgot that a Kremlin asset has just been elected president of the first world power for the second time? It’s not that Syria is that important to him now that he has the Trump-Musk duo on his side, bolstering far right Russia friendly parties in Europe and any kind of fascist insane scheme.
I mean, the longer Putin’s army is stuck in Ukraine, the worse it gets for them. Zoom out and look at the bigger picture since the Ukraine war started:
* Finland and Sweden joined NATO;
* the Russian economy is declining;
* Putin lost Syria in a week;
* Israel marched into Palestine and South Lebanon, waging war against Iran’s (an ally of Russia) proxies;
* Europe has drastically reduced its reliance on Russian energy;
* Russia has lost a lot of influence in Central Asia.
At this rate, I’m wondering if the US really wants the war to stop because it seems the longer it goes on, the weaker Russia becomes.
Syria and Ukraine have badly exposed the Russian regime for what it is, a kleptocratic petrostate.
Where post-Soviet Russia has been successful is through misinformation campaigns to install Russia sympathetic leaders particularly in ex Soviet countries, but the invasion of Ukraine in particular has highlighted that Russia is a spent force militarily and pushed its “sphere of influence” towards Europe and NATO.
With Syria Russian allied despots are going to be looking over their shoulder given Putin has proven he can’t protect them against any potential uptising.
In short the invasion of Ukraine is an unmitigated disaster for Russia and the West has a serious opportunity to finish the Putin regime if it continues to fund Ukraine long enough for Russia to reach economic oblivion.
This might be too optimistic. Russia is having many unfortunate victories in this regard, the most notable being the victory over the United States. As he has shown, Elon Musk is now keen on sabotaging the European political theatre in favour of parties aligning with pro-Russian interests. While Putin may have lost one Syria, he has also aligned the world’s most powerful economy and military to his interests.
This is much more quickly becoming everyone’s nightmare rather than his own. While he is severely damaging his own nation, possibly irreparably, he is also dealing heavy blows to nations over several continents, with well thought-out propaganda machinery doing the bulk of his work.
If his plans come to any sort of fruition, he may be able to repair his own country’s systems with the spoils of hybrid war. Articles such as these risk complacency in the mindset of the people still up for grabs.
Half of Africa is still very much under Putin’s thumb. Until we stop these military coups from happening there that are backed by Russia, the trade partners will always be there for them to sustain themselves
Russians, it seems to me, somehow have a tendency to extremely overestimate themselves. Lenin made the same mistake when he thought russia was strong enough to go through with a successful transformation to communism – did not work either.
Don’t forget Sudan, Ooh, did it go to shit there for Ruzzia as well? 😳
Maybe time to head back to Mordor.
I don’t mind if this dream turns into a nightmare for him.
Anyone who dreams of world domination should be sent straight into the sun
Didn’t Assad flee to Russia and Putin offered him Asylum? Putin planned all this shit, so that the Near East has another crisis and so that we are distracted from him.
He’s got the two morons Trump and Musk ready to set everything on fire
fafo