Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "How the war can destabilize Russia" video.

@BobWill1846 : That’s right. “Life is not a video game,” which is why Russia LOSING Crimea is not the, “world shattering,” threat to the world’s stability that Putin so desperately wants you to think it is. There can be no negotiations for peace until the last Russian jackboot has been removed from Crimea. And if that needs to be over Putin’s dead body, so be it. But he’s the only individual on the planet who’s staked his life on keeping it. And the rest of Russia won’t want to sacrifice anything more, once they’ve already lost so much by then. Demagogues can’t buy loyalty, as Putin will find out. When you call for, “peace,” you really mean, “surrender.” Not happening.
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My guess, for some time now, has been that Russia will end up as a cross between Belarus and North Korea. It will collapse into a much smaller country, dependant as a vassal state, upon China, who will keep them poor and struggling, but strong enough to remain a thorn in the west’s flesh. At least, that seems to be what Xi has decided? Note: Chinese electronic maps (their version of Google Maps and so on) have changed the names of regions in the southern areas of the Russian, “Federation,” back to their old Mandarin designations. If that is not a statement of intent, from a nation that is just as desperate as Russia for an injection of, “population,” to curb their demographic crisis, then what is?
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The Russian population has earned collective chastisement. That began last year, when these people collectively celebrated Putin’s publicly announced the attempts to remove a civilian population’s access to water and power. They celebrated the reducing of entire cities to rubble. Men, women and children, murdered. They cheered. They would have to do a lot to clean that stain off their record.
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