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<blockquote data-quote="TechWise" data-source="post: 7514513" data-attributes="member: 11384"><p>There's a lot of strongly worded statements from the West on it but ultimately there's no appetite to get involved. Indeed, there's no obligation to get involved since Ukraine is not in NATO and no way they'd be admitted in the midst of fighting a guerrilla border war. As [USER=137]@Muck Spreader[/USER] has said, Putin is nibbling away at Ukraine under the guise of protecting Russian-speaking natives, many of whom have pro-Russian sympathies. It's a tactic employed by Germany in its annexation of Austria - stir up unrest, destabilize the governent, then move in your own troops to "restore order" or some such.</p><p></p><p>There's certainly a lot of interesting conjecture about Russian/Chinese cooperation. One school of thought is that Russia stirs up trouble to keep the US tied to Europe, leaving China free to do it's thing in the Pacific. The US Marine Corps is in the process of moving away from heavy armour and reorganising itself to go back to an "island hopping" stance as seen in the second world war, because they reckon the next conflict will be Chinese expansion in the Pacific. Russian troublemaking in Europe keeps the US Army tied down there and tied to heavy armour and fighting formations that are difficult to re-role to the Pacific.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechWise, post: 7514513, member: 11384"] There's a lot of strongly worded statements from the West on it but ultimately there's no appetite to get involved. Indeed, there's no obligation to get involved since Ukraine is not in NATO and no way they'd be admitted in the midst of fighting a guerrilla border war. As [USER=137]@Muck Spreader[/USER] has said, Putin is nibbling away at Ukraine under the guise of protecting Russian-speaking natives, many of whom have pro-Russian sympathies. It's a tactic employed by Germany in its annexation of Austria - stir up unrest, destabilize the governent, then move in your own troops to "restore order" or some such. There's certainly a lot of interesting conjecture about Russian/Chinese cooperation. One school of thought is that Russia stirs up trouble to keep the US tied to Europe, leaving China free to do it's thing in the Pacific. The US Marine Corps is in the process of moving away from heavy armour and reorganising itself to go back to an "island hopping" stance as seen in the second world war, because they reckon the next conflict will be Chinese expansion in the Pacific. Russian troublemaking in Europe keeps the US Army tied down there and tied to heavy armour and fighting formations that are difficult to re-role to the Pacific. [/QUOTE]
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