RE:Meanwhile ….Got to be some sort of Kabuki Theatre designed to fool NATO, somehow. You can certain at one of the Xi / Vlad pow-wows Xi gave Vlad an autographed copy of
"The Art of War" by home-town hero
SunTzu.
One of Suny's Best :
"When you are strong, appear weak." Vlad probably makes Shoigu re-read it every night. As for Germany and the rest of the EU, it's slowly dawning on them they've cut off their nose(s) to spite their face(s). Now, they have to find some way to save those face(s) without appearing to be the
dumber-than-boxes-of-rocks they are.
Maxmoe wrote: I sure don't know wtf is going on in Russia. Insurrection or clumsy ploy to distract and launch an offensive on kyiv from Belarus. But in any case, it's not going to result in super cheap nat gas prices in Europe this summer and fall. Just maybe the Germans and others have learned not to rely on energy solutions from Russia. Now or any time in the next decade. That makes oil/gas from the Black Sea region strategic and valuable.