Recently Andrey Kartapolov (who is responsible for Russia's digital draft) said “There is something called the Suwalki corridor. Should something happen, we would need this corridor very much. Strike forces are ready to occupy this corridor within hours”. This statement raised speculation that the Wagner forces (former Wagner forces?) were relocated to Belarus with this objective in mind.
I don't really understand the motivations behind the statement, and it hasn't been reported on particularly widely in the more serious news outlets, so I think it's probably just your normal day-to-day sabre rattling. An attack on NATO seems a particularly unlikely step for Putin to take.
If we want to save the planet, we should go to war against Russia, not just eternal defense. Sometimes war is necessary to end war.
To save the planet from Climate Crisis and other matters, the only way that will work is a unified planet. That will never happen when there's Russia (and co.) who want to dominate the planet.
A great place to start would be taking Kaliningrad and thereby better geographically unifying the Baltic countries with the EU, instead of Russia succeeding by linking itself with Kaliningrad by taking the Suwalki Gap.
We need to start preparing for war. No, we should have already been prepared for war a long a time ago -- we should have already gone to war and won by now. But better start now than even later.
I think you're wildly optimistic to think that we can sustain both wars at once, or maybe even more wildly optimistic to think that Taiwan wouldn't be invaded within a year of starting a war with Russia.
I don't really understand the motivations behind the statement, and it hasn't been reported on particularly widely in the more serious news outlets, so I think it's probably just your normal day-to-day sabre rattling. An attack on NATO seems a particularly unlikely step for Putin to take.