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I think the effects have dissipated by now. What we should be thinking about is how to get Barbarossa II going. Now would be a very good timing for it. Even those who do not care about colonial-era history should be able to understand the moral case for Russia losing territory as punishment for the recent invasion, as I was explaining here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/re-duginism-1134/msg11997/#msg11997

Absent retaliatory invasion into Russian territory, even if Russia comes out on the other side of this war having totally failed to capture Ukraine, it will have lost nothing except troops and weapons. Who will foot the bill for all the infrastructure damaged by Russia, and for all other expenditures incurred as a result of the war? Some people out there literally believe that Russia's loss of troops and weapons can be counted as the payment. No! If I smash up my neighbour's house with a baseball bat, breaking the baseball bat in the process, I am not thereby (on account of the broken baseball bat) absolved of paying the damages to my neighbour's house! I should have to give my house to my neighbour! Similarly, the only sure way to in effect get Russia to pay is by acquiring Russian territory and resources.

But Russia is obviously not going to agree to this, so the only way to make it lose territory is to take it militarily. Now is the time to do it! Russia is sending in reinforcements into Ukraine, which weakens its defences elsewhere:

Putin's manpower problem: Russia 'is drafting in troops from Siberia and the Pacific as well as Syrians and mercenaries' in desperate attempt to get stalled Ukrainian invasion going after punishing losses

The obvious move is to wait until all the reinforcements are inside Ukraine, and then open up multiple new fronts of war on Russian territory itself! No way can Russia hold Koenigsberg right now if NATO simply decided to take it back.



China and Japan are fools to not take back Outer Manchuria and Karafuto ASAP! With the troops in Armenia going to Ukraine, Turkey can now also invade and take back Crimea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea

Crimea (or the Tauric Peninsula, as it was called from antiquity until the early modern period) has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the Pontic–Caspian steppe. Its southern fringe was colonised by the Greeks and then ruled by the Persians followed by the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and finally successor states including the Empire of Trebizond and Principality of Theodoro. During the entirety of this period the urban areas were Greek-speaking and eventually eastern Christian (Eastern Orthodox). During the collapse of the Byzantine state some cities fell to its creditor, the Republic of Genoa, until eventually all were absorbed by the rapidly rising Ottoman Empire.