Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Jake Broe"
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Jake, two other reasons the Russians want Ukraine and their other former territories.
First, Russian industry is old, inefficient and inflexible. They need Ukraine's factories to produce the tanks, aircraft engines, rocket motors, etc. for their war machine. They just can't produce it themselves.
Second, they are still using the socialist/communist system of state run industry, which is horribly bureaucratic and inefficient. Most of the money in Russia is tied up in the bank accounts of oligarchs, leaving little to run the country with. So, like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Revolutionary France, the only way they can avoid bankruptcy is to steal the wealth of their neighbours. The only reason the USSR stayed afloat for so long is because they leeched all the wealth out of Eastern Europe. You can see this from the fact that Poland, Czechia, and the Baltic States have all become wealthy since they regained their independence and statehood following the collapse of the USSR.
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I think 2022 is the year Putin HAD to invade Ukraine. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, they forgot that Crimea's principle source of water for consumption and agriculture is supplied by the North Crimea Canal. This canal runs from the Donetsk River to reservoirs in the peninsula. When Russia stole Crimea, Ukraine blocked the canal, shutting off the water supply. Since 2014 Russia has reduced the land under cultivation in Crimea by a considerable amount, and imposed severe water restrictions. Even so, the reservoirs have gone from 100% capacity in 2014 to around 7% capacity just before the invasion in February this year. In other words, Crimea would have run out of water by mid-summer this year. All that money the Russians poured into Crimea for military bases and building that bridge across the Kerch Strait would have effectively been flushed down the toilet, and they would have been forced to talk to Ukraine about handing the territory back (or working out some other sort of agreement). So, rather than a diplomatic solution, strongman Putin invaded instead, gambling on the Ukrainian military being as weak and disorganized as it was in 2014. Now his hands are caught in a bear trap.
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