>>511220819 (OP)genuinely funny how the war in Ukraine is meant to be this first bold step on a road to reasserting Russian sovereignty on the world stage while Russia and Ukraine themselves have slowly but surely seen their territories become a proxy war for China, Iran, and the West with both sides being increasingly reliant on their external backers to keep standing.
Ukraine openly wants to enter the EU and NATO while Russia is seeing its domestic non-military economy become completely hollowed out and replaced by Chinese firms, from banking to manufacturing. the last thirty years have just been this pathetic grinding civil war over the corpse of the USSR.