(May 3, 2024 at 10:02 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: Makes sense. Me, though? I would love to see how the insurgency would happen. I mean, strength in numbers to overwhelm an opponent may be good in some case, but with the loss of many Russian troops, I am not sure how they will be able to have enough of them to protect the Russian government after the war.
A Ukrainian insurgency will be based in the north and the west of the nation -- the north has the marshes, and the west has the mountains. There will be disruptions or attacks in cities as well. After Bucha, the Ukrainians won't surrender, though -- they know the score.
The Russian problem will be financing an occupying army for another eight or ten years while their economy withers ... kinda like the 80s, which did indeed break the Soviet regime.