The End is Near
Putin is finished, if he lasts more than two months more, it will be a miracle. What he has done to the former Russian Empire is tragic.
The old add-ons, the Stans, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan were all part of the Soviet Union. They were cemented to Russia by a minority of that country in their population. The Russians were the ones that had the guns.
Now, they are pulling away, the Russian minorities are going home. The Stans true love is Turkey! Some are getting rid of the Cyrillic Alphabet and going back to the Latin Alphabet. They are establishing a new route for their oil and mineral resources to get to the West without going through Russia. It goes across the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan then through pipelines to Turkey. Russia is not involved. The Azeris did not like it when Russia shot down one of their airliners and Putin initially would not acknowledge Russia's guilt.
Ukraine now has one of the most powerful and dangerous armies in the world because of their leap ahead in drone technology. They have fought Russia to a standstill, they are destroying Russian trains and trucks before their supplies of ammunition, food and medical needs can get to the front lines. Crimea is basically cut off because it can't be resupplied. They are destroying the oil refineries, the plants that make the rockets and drones that Russia has been raining down on Kiev, and other strategic targets important to the Russian war effort.
It looks like Russia will have to give up within the next month or so as its soldiers surrender or starve.
This will cause a problem for the United States of America. We cannot afford a Russian collapse. China and Japan covet the Russian far east. Eastern Siberia only has a population of about ten million but lots of oil. We want it. We have been there before. At the end of World War I, we had troops in Siberia from 1918 to 1920.
Russian Intervention, 1918-20. Hospital Car operated by the American Expeditionary Forces at Khabarovsk, north of Vladivostok. American Red Cross Collection.
