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Igel

(35,300 posts)
8. Revanchism.
Tue Mar 15, 2022, 06:10 PM
Mar 2022

It's a very PRC attitude. I keep expecting them to claim part of Vietnam and Mongolia, perhaps Korea.

It's their justification for all sorts of things. "Once mine, always mine."

If Ukraine wins--my definition is "forced to remove Russian forces from the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine, with reversion of the territory to rule of law under the Ukrainian Constitution"--then there's going to be a serious problem in Russia.

If Ukraine loses--which means ending the war with political concessions from Ukraine and Russia keeping or splitting off occupied territory--then Europe will seriously suffer. Perhaps not in my life time, but my kid's. (And many will say, "Hey, that's fine, I got mine.&quot

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