Russia and Ukraine

[Rev. Rye]

-as an addendum, about lessons learned too late. I'm sure that someone will remind me that ukraines military was in shambles, itself, a few years back - so what could they have done? Turns out, russia is so bad at this the locals can manage the defense. Would have been true then as well. The audacity of the plan with regards to the little green men caught the world flat footed...but...it seems now like there was a reason that this was russia's first step in the invasion. It's what they could pull off - realistically. I've been calling the chickens my little green men for a bit since realizing this. They're already grazing disputed pastures..have been for years, no one said anything.

And in this case, we have a case of asymmetrical warfare. And if the locals buy into the premise that they can't let the other guy win, well, just look at almost everything the US military has done since the Korean War (with the exception of the First Gulf War) or even just watch this movie (as long as you're not in a place where it's blocked, like France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, or Korea):



Cut off one head of the hydra, you're going to get two more in its place and, sooner or later, the only real endgames for the occupying forces are genocide or retreating. And, unlike Algeria, Ukraine has the support of everyone that isn't Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Belarus, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or Eritrea.