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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I agree to some extent, though it's more a ramping up of territorial pressure rather than a new precedent. This went on with the US for a long time and Russia under Putin has been engaged in this for a while
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If annexing territory is just normal territorial pressure that would be outright alarming. Russia could rebuild the whole former Eastern block doing this. De-stabalize the existing government in protests for one reason or another, send in "people's militias" for security. Profit. This is almost an identical pattern used in Georgia except there the Georgians actually fought back, though in vain. China seeing this precedent set could start eyeing Taiwan as well.
Other thing is Ukraine and many other ex-Eastern block states are now free to resume building nukes as the previous agreements to respect their territorial sovereignty are not being honored.