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Move along, people.

^ wut?
First of all, Poland does not have an army of 170 000 men
Second, no Polish news confirms anything beyond general increased alert that's been here since things went hot. Nor any family or friends living close to any border nor connected to the armed forces confirms any large concentration. An army of that size could not have got there unnoticed and it has not been noticed by any locals.

And, taking into account very basic geography, sending more army than we have (!) all to the border with Kaliningrad District (the only border we have with Russia) would be ridiculously stupid, so everyone would be talking about it if it was real. We love to complain about stupid moves of our state.

Check your news sources for reliability, really. And cross this one out. This "news" is entirely made up.

They are celebrating the 164th anniversary of the Treaty of Aigun.

f*****g Vladivostok.
We will never forget what Владивосто́к means.

f*****g Russia.

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^ Thanks for fixing pictures
"Владивосто́к" - "Rule the East"...

https://www.mei.edu/publications/russia-ukraine-war-has-turned-egypts-food-crisis-existential-threat-economy

The thing about the sanctions is, even if Putin pulls out of Ukraine to get the trade back up and running, NATO will never go back to trading with him, because it would be seen as too politically incorrect to trade with a mass murderer, who has tried to redeem himself in order to go back to trade.

So since Putin knows that NATO will not go back to trading with him, he is probably thinking he is at the point where he has nothing else to loose, and he will continue going to war, because he is at that point, and NATO will not go back to trading with him, so whe stop now... Is that probably what he is likely thinking?

1. NATO does not trade. NATO members do. Their military alliance does not make any binding decisions about economies.
2. The window to withdraw and go back to trade closed around the time when Bucha atrocities became known - until then, ousting Putin and dumping all blame on him would have probably worked. Now it won't.
3. Russia will stop where it is forced to stop - most likely by running out of resources, both military and economical.

The current strategy:
- International (not just Western - Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan are super important here) sanctions aimed at cutting Russia out of supplies for producing and repairing weapons (microchips!)
- International sanctions aimed at creating economical pressure on Russia so it can't finance forther agression.
- Ukraine is fighting with tactics aimed at maximizing the enemy's losses while minimizing their own (contrary to e.g. tactics focused on territorial gains). They're doing pretty good job in it.
- The West is supplying Ukraine so this tactics can be held for long time.

The goal is Russia weakened so much that even if they used "the bomb" in an act of despair, they wouldn't be able to defend themselves against conventional NATO reaction... well, actually, the goal is to weaken Russia enough for them to lose conventionally against Ukraine and not even dare to use the bomb for knowing they wouldn't stand against the reaction.