ViatorOmnium

They are also doing it to take control of East Siberia. They soften Russian ability to resist by enabling the meat grinder, and buy every single natural resource in eastern Russia at the same time.

At this point, we are out of good options to ensure the trade we need, so we also need the hedge our bets. It’s not like the US is objectively better morally than India and it’s proven less reliable.

It’s like how the SA replaced some normal police forces in Nazi Germany before themselves got mostly shitcanned in 1934.

The regime needs thugs with less institutional inertia.