In 2026, we can expect Russia to go for broke in Ukraine. This is not due to an impending Russian victory but because Moscow literally has no other choice than to surrender.

We have already seen much of this increasing desperation on the part of Moscow in late 2025. Russia has launched attacks all over Ukraine and even in Europe, designed to promote terror as opposed to achieving military objectives. By itself, this is telling.

Incursions into NATO territory are not something to be celebrated, but are not something to be feared either. For all the talk of Russia attacking NATO in the traditional sense with conventional forces, it will not happen. They can’t even win in Ukraine. So its incursions into NATO only make sense in terms of desperation to try and fracture the alliance in the vain hopes of scaring the peoples of said NATO nations. Case in point, the German V Bombs sent to attack the British population in 1944-1945 did nothing to enhance the German effort in........

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