G7 Leaders stand united to impose additional sanctions on Russia
https://www.aol.com/news/1-g7-leader...181227327.html
The longer this thing plays out the more you can start to see the West's long-game. Regardless of where Putin shifts his invading troops, or how long the bombardments last, the fact remains that the longer the invasion lasts the weaker Russia's military and economy will become. TIME is Putin’s greatest enemy right now - and that appears to be NATO’s principle strategy.
At some point Russia will have to call in its Reserve Forces as they simply don’t have enough ground forces left to support Putin’s land objectives. Russia has apparently announced the fact that “this won’t happen” on State media to keep the Russian people in the dark, but it appears to be inevitable. It really is strange that everyone in the World knows more about what's actually going on in Russia than the Russian people themselves. What's wrong with this picture?
Later this week the President of Finland and Sweden’s Prime Minister are expected to announce their decisions to join NATO. Both countries have formidable military forces (air, sea, land), with Finland sharing 1,340 kms of its eastern border with Russia (lucky them). NATO will have grown from 30 to 32 countries in the Alliance, and the longer the clock ticks the stronger and better positioned NATO and UN forces become. Global supply-chains have already started changing shape by incrementally removing Russia from the game-board in support of NATO's other objective, i.e., isolating Russia from the global economy.
Ukraine, with a population of 45 million people covering 603,000 sq km of territory (148% larger than the UK), has proven to the world that it will never surrender any of its real estate to Putin or any other dictator. And NATO has proven to the world that it will continue to supply tactical military hardware (intelligence and equipment) and financial aid to Ukraine for as long as it takes unconditionally.
I can even hear Xi during the quiet moments in his personal chamber telling his closest aids…”that Putin is sure one crazy white man”.