Conspiracy theory from a Normie.
🤔💭 Theory 😲💡
My brother is the definition of Normie. Christian Conservative, traditionalist, Fox News believing, got to go with DeSantis because Trump is too devicive, salt of the earth kind of guy who thinks me a batshit crazy tin foil hat conspiracy nut.
While discussing the unfathomable ability of Russia to fail to take over Ukraine in a month much less a year, he dropped his own conspiracy theory on me. It kinda shook me up.
What if Russia and China are colluding to completely take over America by prolonging the war in Ukraine until October of 2024 when Biden will make a master stroke peace settlement and be reelected along with retaking Congress in order to seal the fate of America once and for all?
I don't think so. Russia doesn't want any part of taking over America, They have enough territory already,
i think it suits Russia to go slowly in Ukraine because they lose fewer men that way and they are bleeding NATO. They are in control and can set the speed to their advantage. In addition, they do not want to go scorched-earth and instill (more) hatred in Ukrainians. They may have to administer the area. They also want to go slow to dampen escalation by NATO.
China is in factions. Who knows what some of them are planning. I think some of them want the US for farmland
I am very impressed with your brother for his lateral thinking. Good work.
The larger point is that Russia simply cannot do what the USA did to Iraq or Libya in Ukraine because Ukraine will forever and always be next door.
Imagine the US taking out all of Mexico. What'll happen next? All of Mexico (even more than today) will be flooding into the US, but angrier than ever. And the US will have to spend trillions rebuilding Mexico if they don't want the world's worst shit hole as neighbor for the next thousand years.
Considering everything in Ukraine was built by the USSR, this is even more the case. Every powerplant destroyed in Ukraine is one that originally came out of Moscow's budget and will have to be rebuilt by the same budget.
So Russia is trying to win (not territory, but strategic security) by doing the least amount of damage possible. But the USA/NATO isn't allowing Russia an easy win and is forcing Russia to do what they never wanted to do -- destroy Ukraine.
Because it's not the war that will bankrupt Russia, but the rebuilding everything that comes after if all of Ukraine is destroyed
Unless Russia builds a wall 100 feet high and tells the EU that the radioactive shit hole formerly known as Ukraine is now their problem