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Dear TP, I think you are making your conclusions based on incomplete information. The main point is: Russia is not at war with Ukraine. It is at a war with NATO (i.e., the US and its vassals). Ukraine is just the battlefield, a point of contact. This war is only partially kinetic, and it began well before February 2022 (the sanctions are an instrument of war waging). The non-kinetic part of this war is the reformatting of the world order. Just look at the processes taking place in zone B (the part of the world which is not the "West"). The world is moving towards becoming multipolar. The money flow in the international transactions in the large part of the world started to use currencies other than the US dollar. There is a hope that at the end of these "interesting times" there will be a world governed by the international law instead of being the "rules-based order".

To conclude, it is too early for making evaluations and also it is necessary to use the correct criteria as a basis for those evaluations. As Putin has said, "We haven't even started anything yet". Another quote of his that he made at the UN in 2015 (and that quote was directed towards the collective West): "Do you even understand what you have done!". By the way, the English translation fails to deliver the undertones of both statements.

Yours truly. Have been enjoying your blog for a couple of years now!

Alex

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Brilliant.

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