⬆️ >> #Hungary & #Turkey are the #pincers in #Putin's #revanchistDreams.

Not sure if it was this realization that #Putin might be using #Erdogan for his selfish ambitions in #Africa — like he was using #Assad — that caused #Turkey to help #HTS overthrow Assad without alerting #Russia and thus remove Russia from Syria 🤷‍♂️

#Orban's affinity to #Putin is still unexplained. But I hope, as member of #NATO, it is also wary of Russia using #Europe as a stepping stone to Africa and will help thwart it
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⬆️ >> Soon after #Oct7, in a congressional testimony, #Biden's Def Sec and Sec State, #Austin and #Blinken, both testified that #Israel-#Hamas conflict and the #Russian aggression in Ukraine are "interlinked"

Path from #Kyiv to #TelAviv passes through former #IronCurtain countries #Moldova, #Romania, #Bulgaria, & through #Turkey ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111434739906526615

Alternate path passes through Hungary & #Serbia ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111434764452759087

#Hungary & #Turkey are the #pincers in #Putin's #revanchistDreams
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⬆️ #China’s #BeltAndRoadInitiative is aligned with #Putin’s #RevanchistDreams ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111591513022426045

China is not an #Arctic country: its coasts do not border with #ArcticSea. Yet, it calls itself a #NearArcticState ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111630911378365445

Now China is "concerned" about# NATO’s relationships with #Australia, #NewZealand, #Japan, & #SouthKorea

“China urges NATO to ... stop interfering in China’s INTERNAL politics… and not create chaos in the Asia-Pacific after CREATING turmoil in Europe” 🙄

⬆️ @cdarwin

>> ‘You know what? I think we’re gonna go in and maybe take my …’ This was his dream. I talked to [#Putin] about it. His dream,” #Trump said.

You know what? "Dream" is the right word.

I created the hashtag #RevanchistDreams last year just for that

⬆️ @timkmak

>> #Putin had reaffirmed his #Kharkiv plans immediately after returning from #China.

Now #Putin offers truce if #Ukraine exits #Russian-claimed areas and drops #NATO bid.

Just like #Hamas offers truce if #Israel completely exists #Gaza and agrees to permanent #ceaseFire with not so much as a count of how many hostages are still alive, and without completely demilitarizing Gaza 🙄

Putin's #revanchistDreams will not stop at a "buffer zone" in Ukraine.

https://apnews.com/article/putin-russia-ukraine-war-4f58423548b3d2e8594c9d9eb8e9d36e

⬆️ @tsturm @kravietz

#Taiwan’s foreign minister says #China and #Russia are supporting each other’s ‘#expansionism’

#RussianRevanchism
#Putin’s #RevanchistDreams
#Xi’s #BeltAndRoadInitiative #BRI

China is not distracting Russia with #Ukraine. China is distracting the whole world with the #MiddleEast conflict.

China-brokered #rapprochement between #Iran and #ArabLeague was the precursor to #Hamas #Oct7 attacks on #Israel

https://apnews.com/article/joseph-wu-taiwan-interview-russia-china-492fbd5e896ae3231de5f3fbf3c93012

⬆️ @tsturm @kravietz

>> what #China is doing with #Russia right now, my guess is that China wants a chunk of Siberia. #GlobalWarming will force China to go north

China is not an #Arctic country: its coasts do not border with #ArcticSea nor does it claim to have sovereignty on under-continental shelves or water in the Arctic. Yet, it defines itself as a #NearArcticState ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111630911378365445

China’s #BeltAndRoadInitiative is aligned with #Putin’s #RevanchistDreams ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111591513022426045

⬆️ #JuniorPartner #Putin to visit #SeniorPartner #Xi, who has backed #Russia’s #FullScaleInvasion of #Ukraine.

Compare with #US, which has barred #Israel’s FULL-SCALE invasion of #Rafah.

Putin says Russia is prepared to negotiate over Ukraine, just like #Hamas says it’s prepared to negotiate with Israel.

#China claims to be neutral but backs Russian position that it was provoked into attacking Ukraine by the West, despite Putin’s public avowals of his #RevanchistDreams

https://apnews.com/article/china-russia-putin-beijing-xi-3212ef85d8318cf853f956173f3a682a

⬆️ @kravietz

>>#Russia Dmitry #Medvedev said "let’s carry out OTHER activities on their territory that are NOT publicly discussed"

#Soviet #RevanchistDreams ➡️ https://odessa-journal.com/public/medvedev-dreams-of-the-collapse-of-ukraine-and-showed-a-map

#PermanentStateOfWar in #Ukraine ➡️ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-says-standoff-with-west-last-decades-ukraine-conflict-permanent-2023-07-03/

#Holodomor 2.0 ➡️ https://www.reuters.com/business/putin-ally-warns-agriculture-supplies-could-be-limited-friends-2022-04-01/

#FourthReich, #US #CivilWar ➡️ https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-725916

#HyenaOfEurope ➡️ https://tass.com/politics/1700959

Unilateral changes to #Poland's borders ➡️ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-floats-idea-pushing-back-polands-borders-2023-02-24/

#EternalEnemy #Britain ➡️ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-01-12/russias-medvedev-says-any-uk-troop-deployment-to-ukraine-would-be-a-declaration-of-war

⬆️ @ncoca

>> Just saw a surprising headline "Southeast Asian countries dominate demand for Russian coal." The countries? #India, #SouthKorea #China and, most surprisingly, #Turkey.

Why is Turkey most surprising?

#Hungary & #Turkey are #pincers in #Putin's #revanchistDreams developed in plain sight ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111591513022426045

Turkey has been helping Putin openly — blocking ascension of #Sweden to #NATO until very recently, and not recognizing Putin-ally #Iran-backed #Hamas as a terrorist orgn.