Wall Street Is Pouncing on Russia’s Cheap Corporate Debt

[sanman]

You're forgetting about area. That's immense amount of area to try to cover for Russia. That's the kind of thing that makes a continued insurgency a bleak reality for them. These people will never quit. Putin has made blood enemies out of them.

Take a look at Russia's land area some time, and you'll see who's really bigger. Acres don't fight.

The Russians could not have ever prevailed against the Nazis without the Western powers logistical and military support. If they want to sacrifice another million men as they did just to get to Berlin first, then so be it. I don't think at this point that even know what the end of this or what 'victory' would look like at this point. Putin doesn't appear to have to thought it through before acting,

Don't be ridiculous - learn more about WW2. The Russians have a deep hinterland they could draw upon for strategic depth, including the factories they set up there.

Wrong. It was Russia and Castro that had plans to use tactical nuclear weapons against any US invading forces landing in Cuba. The US had no plans to utilize nuclear weapons against Cuba unless such weapons were used against them first. And if Russia or Cuba had done so it would have triggered a full retaliatory response by the US. Look at what Russia is doing to Ukrainian civilians and had done to Muslim civilians in Syria to know how much evil they are willing to sow.

Oh, you mean the sovereign Cuba which was not allowed to exercise its sovereign choice? Hmmm, seems like there's a selective view of sovereignty here.

 

[Cardinal]

My argument is Don't Poke the Bear.

Let Russia have a buffer state between itself and the West, instead of expanding NATO right up to Russia's borders.

Putin's feelings on this are not unreasonable, it's his actions now taken which are unreasonable. But none of this would have happened if we hadn't poked the bear.

But if they take Ukraine, NATO will be right at their border. Didn’t really think that one through, did you?

 

[sanman]

But if they take Ukraine, NATO will be right at their border. Didn’t really think that one through, did you?

No, Ukraine would still be at NATO's border - it just won't be under NATO's control.

 

[Cardinal]

No, Ukraine would still be at NATO's border - it just won't be under NATO's control.

But Ukraine would be absorbed into Russia and therefore Russia would be next to NATO. And even then, so what?

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

The Russians won WW2 -- they put the most people into the fight.

The reason NATO was formed is to deter Soviet encroachment into Europe.
Putin invading Ukraine constitutes "Soviet" encroachment into Europe, even if they're not really "Soviets" anymore.
Putin knows this, he always knew it.
His agenda has nothing to do with being reasonable unless you're okay with a massive effort to destabilize every single democracy on the planet,
in order to soften the ground for eventual global authoritarian fascism.

Any hopes he ever had to seek and get a better deal on his precious "Eastern oblasts" of Donetsk and Luhansk are now null and void.
He may still wind up getting those concessions but here on out, there will be no "reasonableness" in anything concerning Russia, and that
includes those two provinces. He wants them viewed as Russia? The world will TREAT them AS Russia...as Putin's Russia.
And until he's either deposed, incarcerated, put in a funny farm or even killed outright a la Ceaucescu, that's how it will be...for him, and his precious
Russianized Ukraine oblasts.
Alina Kabaeva may want to check on budget flights to a non-aligned country pretty soon.

 

[Atomic Kid]

Take a look at Russia's land area some time, and you'll see who's really bigger. Acres don't fight.

What a stupid response. Russia despite all of it's area is a small country from an economic perspective. According to the IMF the gross domestic product (GDP) of Russia amounted to $1,648 billion in 2021. This is about the same size as the combined GDP of Belgium ($582 billion) and the Netherlands ($1,008 billion) in the same year. Where are they going to get resources to militarily cover and occupy a country as large in area as Ukraine?

Don't be ridiculous - learn more about WW2. The Russians have a deep hinterland they could draw upon for strategic depth, including the factories they set up there.

You're the one who needs to learn more about WWI. American logistics and the opening of a second front in Western Europe were key to Russia's survival against the Nazi onslaught. Why else do you think Stalin was pushing so hard for a second front?

Oh, you mean the sovereign Cuba which was not allowed to exercise its sovereign choice? Hmmm, seems like there's a selective view of sovereignty here.

This so called sovereign nation was secretly importing nuclear arms from Russia. Seems to me you have a selective view as to which side it was that was willing to use them.

 

[Ahlevah]

Aren’t these the same puppet masters who thought Venezuelan debt was a bargain just before the country’s debt cratered?