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Here’s Ten Reasons Why Russia is Attacking Other European States
Events have already grown past Ukraine’s borders
They are not stopping. I thought I’d make a list as it is just easier to write, and hopefully read, also. I did not say “will be attacking” as a title, because though it seems to have escaped the attention of various European leaders (has it?), Russia is already at war with Europe. Because they are at war with European states, what Russia is doing is not merely prodding. The electronic warfare from Kalinigrad, cable-cutting, kidnapping of border guards, setting explosives, threatening, fermenting unrest (the Polish farmers in 2023), disrupting supplies, forcing illegal immigrants in are all part of the growing war. Think 2014 in Ukraine.
One: All other countries in Europe are smaller in size than Ukraine. This makes a big difference for logistics as well as any tactics, if you do call the meatgrinder approach to warfare cunningly conceived by those of befuddled brains in the Kremlin tactics in any form.
Smaller territories are more advantageous across the board; smaller territories that are flat, and though the Tatra mountains separate Poland from Slovakia, through Ukraine and around into Romania, the land in front of the Russian horde is otherwise flat, other than further south in Bulgaria. But Bulgaria…
