12-04-2024, 08:40 PM
DeusxMac wrote:
Gotta finish off the non-NATO countries first. "Reconstitute" the old USSR: Ukraine, then Belarus, Modolva, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan and all the little adjacent "...stans", etc.
Why buy some jalopy or a Yugo when you can steal a Mini Cooper or a Chevy Blazer?
I don't think the objective here is to accrue resources or gain wealth so much as to destabilize; there's a lot more for oligarchs to gain from more destructive wars than from relatively peaceful annexations.