https://archive.is/WVsCU#selection-1165.0-1165.733 >>Political isolation from the West has weaned Moscow from its traditional fixation on Western Europe and North America and pushed it to discover the wider world of the dynamic non-Western nations. It is not just China and India and the rest of BRICS, but also the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey. Last weekend in St. Petersburg, Putin shared the platform with the president of Algeria and received a peace mission of six African leaders. Next month, he is hosting a second Russia-Africa summit there. Since the beginning of the year, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has made three trips to the continent, visiting a dozen nations in total. ... However, let's circle back from doomsday scenarios to where we are today. The Kremlin strategy, it appears, is to chart a middle course between those who would like to freeze the conflict while fixing the gains on the ground, and those who propose to escalate to a nuclear first use as a path to victory. Unlike those two approaches that seek an early result, the actual course that one can trace with the naked eye (who knows what is hidden from view?) is that of a long-term grinding engagement, leading to Russia ultimately prevailing due to its greater resources, resilience and willingness to make sacrifices than the West. Like all strategies built on staying power, this one will be tested at home as much as on the frontline. Hm. Ukrainians should have surrendered on day1 They would be in the exact same position pretty much, except with much less casualties And if washington & co didn't insist on poking the bear and sanctioning it after it went mad as a result, their globalization darling would still be a thing, now it's gone, it has become a legacy pile of shit, more or less, it's not functional anymore, not sure they did it on purpose btw, I mean why relentlessly build all that global network of debt money and gradual debasement of all things nation to infinity via open everything essentially, to just roll it back almost entirely with what seems to be a major big ass strategic blunder? ...