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Germany warns that Russia is rearming faster than expected, replacing war losses and stockpiling tanks, missiles, and drones.

Putin has redirected Russia’s economy to fuel its military, aided by supplies from Iran and North Korea.

While there’s no clear evidence of plans to attack NATO, Russia is creating the conditions for it.

On the Ukraine front, Russian forces are advancing in south Donetsk, nearing strategic town Pokrovsk, a key supply hub and coal mining center.

Analysts suggest Putin aims to seize land before potential peace talks.

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[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

If the US leaves that alliance and then starts surreptitiously sending drone parts to Russia, it'll get dicey.

If the AfD forms a coalition government with the normal conservatives and Germany decides to turn inwards and keep Deutsche money für die Deutscher, it'll get dicey.

If Macron finally completes his heel turn and appoints Marine le Pen to interior secretary...

If Italy keeps going the way they've been going...

If the Finnish right decides that joining NATO was a mistake that let too many minorities in...

If the rest of Africa goes along with the Sahel nations and starts funneling their resources into the Russian war machine...

If Modhi lets Russia open more factories in India...

If China decides that they're cool with sharing power on the global scale and fully buys in on the BRICS bloc...

Russia looks weak right now because the invasion has been such and embarrassment, but that can change surprisingly quickly. The global shift towards authoritarianism is coming hand-in-hand with a shift away from US/Eurocentric hegemony.

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