Is Russia trying to regain its former satellites? ?

Question

Is it possible? How would the west react?

Answer 1

The US can not handle it's own economy.  One more war and the US will collapse.

Answer 2

Hi!

Yes, they are.

However, Europe fill not fail this time. There's just too many of us. While Russia has a population of around 150 million the European Union alone has around 650 million. The US around 300 million.

And, oh, we have most money.

Without money Russia will collapse again (it happened in 1992 when they were broke).

Answer 3

Yes...but they have failed once and they will fail again.

Answer 4

With the exception of Russia's friends-of-convenience, the world will unite against Russia's imperialist aspirations. Russia done more to advance the unity of the west than anyone could have hoped for.

Answer 5

Russia wants control over the oil pipelines.  I think they are upset that Saudi Arabia is getting filthy stinking rich off of lazy Americans who can't get out of their cars and wants to take a piece of our ***.

America is throwing money out the window, and Russia isnt really getting any of it.

Answer 6

Yes this is their first attempt and their first failure. Russia didn't believe the US was going to send in aid, nor some hardware over this and we did this week. We called their bluff. The US is the only country which backs up their words with action as Saddam never thought that we were serious and look at him now....he is just ashes in the ground. Further, in these past 7 days we just learned what the conventional war machine is like from Russia. Russia's military equipment, tanks and trucks and support personnel is so bad, that just in 7 days alone many of their trucks and tanks have broken down and they had to go after Georgian tanks and trucks in order to strip parts off in order to make their own equipment run and not to forget that the Russian troops are so undisciplined that they have resorted to robbing banks and shooting reporters. Their forces are a "4th rate" group among military forces and could not fight a normal conventional war because. The Georgian anti-aircraft forces shot down 10 of the Russian aircraft on the first day of action and Russia attacked Georgia when Georgia's military leaders such as Georgia's head of their defense was on vacation. The Russians should have never done this before it looked powerful to the rest of the World on the surface but it was the cause for the US and Poland to sign an anti-Russian missile defense treaty and it caused the rest off Europe to awaken out of their deep sleep and see the reality of the true Russian, dictator's heart.

The truth is Russia made a very bad calculation and now the US is going to begin stationing many more of their hardware and personnel around the bordering countries of Russia and all of these countries will now allow it when just three weeks ago would have never thought about doing it.

Answer 7

Yes they are.

The U.S. will impose sanctions and move military into Eastern Europe

Europe will negotiate a surrender.

Answer 8

Of course it is. Why wouldn't it? Whose going to stop them? And the West will b**** and moan but won't actually lift a finger to stop it.

Answer 9

Putin has long expressed his displeasure at the collapse of the USSR & expressed a desire to restore Russia to its former position as a feared World Power. The loss of former satellite countries to Western influence will not be long tollerated by Putin & he has recently signed a common defense treaty with China.

Because the US has transfered a large percentage of their manufacturing ability & technology to China & overextended the military in Iraq, he views the Americans & NATO as too weak to oppose him.