Of course he shakes people down. That is his nature. NATO, EU, Erdogan. All playing stupid games.
Hungary decides not to veto some recent EU Ukr stuff then EU stabs him in the back anyway.
If NATO demands standardization and Sweden has a large arms industry then what happens to that?
I think the long view is that remaining neutral has paid off and will pay off. Ruling over massive non Russian populations is a pain in the butt. Russia needs to rule over Baltics or Poland like they need brain cancer. There is a a lot of evidence that Russians subsidized non Russians in the USSR. E.g. central Asians. Even at their height USSR had to put down uprisings in Germany, Hungary, Czech and elsewhere.
Female leaders and feminized males get all shrill about the Ukr invasion. I heard Finland is enacting more sanctions that will hurt Finland. Finland closed some border crossings bc Finland says 700 illegals crossed from RU in the past year. Meanwhile, the EU sanctions countries that stop illegals. If you pay attention, many of these feminized leaders are acting to get their next jobs in the globalized world institutions. WEF? UN? INF? World Bank? Lobbyists? Consulting firms? They do not care bout their citizens. German Scholz recently went nuts, blaming Russia for shutting down the gs supply. What is his next job?
