Can Putin rebuild the Iron Curtain?

[Zavulon]

Germany once had that delusion. But it came much closer than Russia can.

And the US have this delusion now.

 

[Zavulon]

Why hasn't Putin dropped Nukes against anybody? Seems to you it is a great idea.

Once a nuke dropped by anybody, NPT is finished and our little privileged nuclear club became much larger and not that privileged. Nobody wants to have nuclear Germany, Japan or Mexico. It has the price in the terms of human lifes either - more nukes means more buttons and more fingers on the buttons it means higher risks for everybody. The price of it is high but not "unacceptable". Some experts estimate this price as high as one million killed. So, if there is a significant risk to lose one million soldiers in a conventional war - the nuclear war may be preferable.

 

[Zavulon]

I know you really like Putin just as much as Germans liked Hitler.

There were a lot of Germans who didn't like Hitler's personality, but many of they liked the idea that the wealth and safety of Germans depends on their ability to conquer and colonise living space in the East. Actually, it is what they have been doing for centuries.
I don't like Putin's personality, but I do support idea, that NATO should be pushed back for safety of Russian people, and Ukraine and Baltic states should be denazificated (in the Russian understanding of the term). Fighting and crushing western barbarians invading Russian lands is what Russian have been doing for centuries.

 

[Robert W]

There were a lot of Germans who didn't like Hitler's personality, but many of they liked the idea that the wealth and safety of Germans depends on their ability to conquer and colonise living space in the East. Actually, it is what they have been doing for centuries.
I don't like Putin's personality, but I do support idea, that NATO should be pushed back for safety of Russian people, and Ukraine and Baltic states should be denazificated (in the Russian understanding of the term). Fighting and crushing western barbarians invading Russian lands is what Russian have been doing for centuries.

Germans got so many benefits from Hitler that those who at first did not like him, really liked him a lot prior to his wars.
I think Russians who at least were on Putin's side by now do not like his war against a close by country they once owned. I suspect there are as many Nazis in Russia as ever were in Ukraine. The Soviets went to war against Poland just like the Nazis did.

 

[Zavulon]

Germans got so many benefits from Hitler that those who at first did not like him, really liked him a lot prior to his wars.
I think Russians who at least were on Putin's side by now do not like his war against a close by country they once owned.

Actually, most of us are more benefited from the war. Absolute majority support the war. It increases both wealth and safety of Russian people.

I suspect there are as many Nazis in Russia as ever were in Ukraine.

It depends on definitions. In our understanding of the term - its not correct.

The Soviets went to war against Poland just like the Nazis did.

Of course, no. First of all, Russia didn't went to war against Poland because there was no Poland as an organised state at the moment of Russian invasion (and therefore there were no any organized resistance). Second - Russian "invasion" in Poland was an answer for Polish attack against Czechoslovakia, ally of the Soviet Union. Third - Soviet Union just took rightfully Russian lands of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, previously occupied by Poland.

And no, fighting Poland is not specifically "Nazi" feature. There were a lot of Russian-Polish wars (say nothing about other countries).

 

[Robert W]

Serbia is a part of former Yugoslavia, not Czechoslovakia. And it was the victim of direct, open and clear unprovoked and illegal US aggresion.

It was a special military operation as you say against Ukraine.

 

[Robert W]

here were a lot of Germans who didn't like Hitler's personality,

I believe that most Russians do not like Putin.

 

[Zavulon]

It was a special military operation as you say against Ukraine.

No. Our special military operation is justificated by the act of Ukrainian aggression against our allies - DPR and LPR, which is equal to direct attack against Russian Federation itself. So, it is an act of collective self-defense, which is justful as heaven.
But Serbia didn't attack neither the USA, nor any of their formal allies.

 

[Robert W]

- DPR and LPR

What does that mean?

 

[Zavulon]

I believe that most Russians do not like Putin.

Putin is not piece of gold, to be beloved by everyone. Actually, "good guy" is not a job. You don't need to like a cook, you like (or not like) his dishes. Putin is doing his job, and he is doing is rather good (at least for now). Of course, it could be done better, but it could be done much worse, either.

 

[Zavulon]

What does that mean?

Donetsk People Republic and Lugansk People Republic.

 

[braalian]

Considering most of the countries the Iron Curtain ran through are now NATO members….. I’d say no