(January 21, 2022 at 1:13 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: A full-on invasion and occupation would not be in the best interest of Putin or Russia as far as I can tell, so assuming Putin isn't being irrational, I think that's off the table. Grabbing a little land would be in character, though.
Putain's in a week position currently, both domestically (he's in charge of a failed state with a dead economy and a rapidly shrinking population) and internationally (he's got no friends, not even China, who are increasingly seeing his as potential vassal). His recent military forays didn't exactly go to plan, while al-Assad is still in power in Syria, Russia's efforts in the region were pretty weaksauce and they did get their collective arse handed to them by Turkey. In Ukraine, the undeclared war isn't going well, despite being heavily armed and supported by the Russian army the separatist groups in the Donbass area are losing their dirty war.
Hence why you se Putain playing the big man and threatening to go to war. Unfortunately, like Hitler in 1939 he might just be stupid enough to let slip the dogs.
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