Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #988 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY May 6, 2025: ‘Russia’s FOREVER WAR’ by ZUMA Press via TASS photo-journalist Alexei Konovalov: The US and Europe must invest in resisting Russia now or pay a far greater cost later. Russia is likely to walk away from the war in Ukraine emboldened and, once it has reconstituted its military capacity, spoiling for another fight to revise the security order in Europe. Giving in to Russia’s demands will not make it any easier or cheaper to defend Europe, look at the events of the past two decades. At every turn, the war in Georgia in 2008, Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, and its deployment of troops to Syria in 2015, Putin has grown only more willing to take risks as he comes to believe that doing so pays off. The Kremlin will look to pocket any concessions from the West for ending the current war, such as sanctions relief, to strengthen its hand for the next one. Russia is clearly investing in a transformation of its military. It’s the real reason that Europe is mobilizing. Welcome to ‘Russia’s FOREVER WAR’
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