One reason Russia won't invade Ukraine

[mystery-ak]

January 21, 2022
One reason Russia won't invade Ukraine
By David Archibald

So many things the Democrats organized have turned out to be false flag operations (Whitmer kidnapping, January 6) that it would be safe to assume that everthing they do is a false flag operation until proven otherwise.  This brings us to the strange case of the imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine.  We are supposed to believe that the modern Machievelli, Vladimir Putin, has had 100,000 Russian troops camped out in the snow for months on end, poised to invade Ukraine.  No complaints from the Russian troops have been heard, so these must be really hard men, capable of enduring enormous suffering, sitting patiently in the snow drifts while waiting for their leader's order to advance.  And they would all be men with not one pregnancy flight suit east of the Dnieper.

This is doubly strange because relations between the Bidens and the Russians are so cordial.  One Russian lady, Elena Baturina, gave Hunter Biden $3.5 million, seemingly out of the kindness of her heart, because no reciprocal service was provided by Mr. Biden.

Another strange thing about the Russian invasion threat is that it is exactly the wrong thing to do if your major threat is China.  China has territorial ambitions on all its neighbours and is the greatest threat to world peace.  Russia understands that Chinese territorial ambitions, for example over Vladivostok, not being actively pursued are merely in abeyance.  China's long-term ambition is to subsume all Russian territory east of the Urals.

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[Kamaji]

The author's underlying reason for the proposition that Russia won't invade Ukraine is that doing so would make Russia poorer because it would result in Russia spending oil revenues on Ukrainian roads and etc.

That is a flawed assumption.  There is no necessary causal connection between a Russian political takeover of Ukraine, and spending on Ukrainian infrastructure.  The Russians would be more likely to install a puppet regime that would start bleeding resources out of Ukraine than they would be to start pumping resources into Ukraine in the name of civil infrastructure.