Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)" channel.

  1. Russia loves salami slicing. They did the same thing on the Georgian border. They would literally pick up those tiny border guard posts at night and shift them a few hundred feet or yards and people would suddenly be told they now live in Russia. Though that’s not really what’s going on here. They’re testing Western willingness to stand behind their small Baltic NATO members. The West is finally learning, after so many warnings from those who understood Russia and Putin, the only thing that deters Russia is violence and threats. Limp wristed “diplomatic condemnations” let alone granting concessions (de facto rewarding bad behavior) only encourages and whets their appetite more. It was exactly due to the West’s lack of any response to their actions in Georgia, the Donbas and especially Crimea that convinced them they had nothing to fear from the West if they invaded Ukraine. And, even this time, they could have gotten away with it, but they thought they could swallow up more territory as well as force regime change and ignored the early “off ramps” offered by the West.
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  2. The first interview with that guy spewing nonsense like only 150k troops and claiming Russia was abiding by the rules of not sending conscript to the front line or young conscripts to Ukraine made me immediately question the credibility of this doc.
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