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Mark Sleboda 

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International Affairs & Security Analysis, Discussion of Current Events & International Relations from a Realist, Russian, and Multipolar Perspective

Taking Your Questions for Your Weekly Q&A

Hey @everyone I will be taping your weekly Q&A tomorrow evening Moscow time 10/06/26. If you have any questions for me, please post them here or on the Discord Community in the Weekly Q&A chennel.
Hope this is not too much for one Q&A 😁
I have noticed that anti-terrorist agents and prosecutors are very quickly at the scene of any Ukrainian atrocities against civilians. Am I right in assuming a day of reckoning is in store for the war criminals? Is Russia documenting similar crimes by the Ukrainian military and SBU against Russian soldiers & POWs?
The Real Politick - In Focus - Episode 54 - 08/06/26 - The War on Iran: Week 15
The Real Politick - In Focus - Episode 54 - 08/06/26 - The War on Iran: Week 15
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Iran's Ceasefire Trap

Iran's Ceasefire Trap
My latest geopolitical soapbox rant with Danny Haiphong 06/06/26
https://www.youtube.com/live/gmmV8pPOh64?si=Mpt0tPd3Ktsp0Qji
The Real Politick - Week-in-Review - Episode 53 - 05/06/26
The Real Politick - Week-in-Review - Episode 53 - 05/06/26
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Hey Mark, have been watching you for a while, for years in fact, primarily in youtube videos by Garland, Nima etc. Since I have just missed the weekly Q&A, i would like to ask the question here, since it is directly related to video you have made with Garland: You have been mentioning this "mathematical box" that Russia is trying to stay in wrt to the conflict in Ukraine. But since the europeans have wasted vast amounts of its interceptor stocks to Ukraine and also transferred vast amounts of actual air defense systems, they should be very weakly defended. Why does Russia not decide to perform decisive strikes against key military transport hubs in europe, or drone factories to show the west: "You are not invincible, and your article 5. does not scare us". I personally, just like Karaganov do not think they will dare to invoke article 5. Would now, out of all the times, be the best time to scare them off ? Can Russia not take it?
To expand this slightly more: Like you said, the dirty war is expected to become ever dirtier and ever nastier. At some point, however, the "dirty tricks" can definitely become a strategic level threat: We have had attacks on the Russian STRATEGIC BOMBERS in 2025 (this by itself, according to the nuclear doctrine should warrant a nuclear response). (or in 2024 when an early warning radar was attacked) We have had attacks on Russian soil with British storm shadows and French scalps. This again, according to the updated nuclear doctrine (2024 I think) warrants a nuclear response. (when a nuclear power state provides deep rear strike capability to a non nuclear state). How does Russia plan on being taken seriously if the west keeps proving, time and time again that Russia can be attacked without serious repercussions. In Europe, there is massive euphoria about Ukraine's new drone capabilities and how tide is being turned, how starlinks are render Russian el. warfare obsolete etc. 
The Real Politick - Community Weekly Q&A - Episode 53 - 03/06/26
The Real Politick - Community Weekly Q&A - Episode 53 - 03/06/26
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