Thread by @YugoSurfer

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Since many people asking why #Russia is still running a #SMO (Special military operation) and does not transform it into formal war and mobilises, I want to deliver some answers. #Ukraine is a small piece in the big geopolitical game, to end the Western hegemony over the world

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#Russia has dared to openly challenge the Western system (empire/colonization of most countries of the world, called globalization) and to show to the world, that it can withstand everything, the West can throw against it. This is not enough, Russia even want's to show, to its

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#BRICS partners, with which it wants to redefine the world order, that it can handle the Western retaliation measures (economical and militarily in #Ukraine) with ease. Why? To brag? No! To show, that every nation, that wants to join the future free world, can be safe

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against Western retaliation measures. Today, if you are not #Russia or #China, and you openly dare, to not follow Western orders, you either get bombed into stone age or you get sanctioned into stone age. Basically old school colonial behaviour. Russia and China wants to offer

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to the world a alternative system, where all countries can operate free and without the threat, to be "stoneaged". Therefore a alternative economic and financial system is needed, which is being launched currently. All nations, that join the #BRICS systems,

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can't be sanctioned anymore by the West. Neither can the West track its financial transactions anymore, as soon as they join the #China|ese or #Russia|ian #SWIFT alternative. Well, this is only one part of the story, not being sanctioned into stone aged. Leaves the question

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about being bombed into stone age. This is, what #Russia is currently trying to show in #Ukraine. That it can fight off #NATO with a minimal force, due to technological superiority. The goal of the #China/Russia axis is, to show the world, that it can defend all nations

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if they seek independence from they century long colonial masters. #Russia has chosen, to finish this job with its regular army, without mobilisation. Which means she has some one million troops, and needs to use them to achieve its goals. If you are not a kiddy, then you

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realise, that you can't simply withdraw you whole army from the whole country and throw it into #Ukraine. #Russia is, in this case unfortunately, the biggest country in the world. Which means in turn, that it has plenty of places and countries around them, where the West can

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stir up trouble. So All the #Russia|n garrisons across the country needs to be manned and prepared to intervene, where needed. Moreover there is always a imminent threat, that the West could intervene in #Ukraine, therefore Russia maintains a strike force of some 300.000

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troops, to intervene, if the West would do shit in the Western direction. What is left, is the #SMO!
So, to be able, to increase troops in #Ukraine, #Russia can rise volunteer formations (which it does, across Russia) or mobilise. Here we come to the geopolitical problems.

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#Russia (to be precise, #Putin himself) stated the goals of the #SMO at the beginning off it. If you don't achieve your goals in a war, then it means in turn, that you LOST this war. Yes, you still can escalate, mobilise and crush the enemy, but it would be considered as

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weakness, by its #BRICS partners. The West knows this very well, and that's why it does whatever it can, to force #Russia to mobilise and to show, that it can't even handle such a corrupt and poor country as #Ukraine, without its full military might. How can Russia defend

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then the rest of the world against the West itself, if it can't even defeat #Ukraine without everything it has?
Fair point! That's why I can imagine, that #Putin will do, whatever he can, to avoid this losing of a) his own face, and b) of #Russia|n face as a whole, as a

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defender against Western imperialism and colonialism.
Here we have a problem. This fight is existential for #Russia. It put everything it has into the project "new world order without Western hegemony". If it fails, Russia is completely done and isolated. If it wins, it will

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be one of the leaders of the new world order with #China and the other #BRICS countries. So the fight is existential, exactly, as #WW2 was for it. It can't go back. It needs to win or #Russia is done. In turn it means, if shit hits the fan, then it will escalate and mobilise

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but only if nothing else works. Because its position in the new world would be compromised then and far weaker... behind #China etc.

So please, everyone, who only sees #Ukraine and what would be militarily right, I'm sure the #Russia|n general staff knows this as well and

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better. But here are far more important things at stake, that needs to be considered. #Russia is fighting for all future generations worldwide, and of course in Russia as well, so they have the chance to grew up in independence and freedom. For such a goal, #Putin considerers

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the sacrifices, that are currently made in #Ukraine, as justified.

This is far beyond our imagination and mine as well, that's why I won't judge it here, whether it is good or not. I admit, that it is beyond me. Everyone needs to judge for himself. The only thing I can say,

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is, that #Russia won't lose, since it mustn't lose, or there won't be Russia anymore. Before it loses, it will take the measures, necessary, to win. Don't get me wrong... it will take ALL measures... ALL... I won't go deeper into this...