(May 4, 2024 at 1:51 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(May 4, 2024 at 12:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Untenable’ doesn’t seem to be a word in Putin’s lexicon. I think, no matter what the price in men and materials, he will - with Soviet-era pigheadedness - keep trying to hold Crimea. In a very real way, this would be a gift for Ukraine.
Boru
He has to retain Crimea -- it is a stated war aim, and backing away from that is politically dangerous.
Once he ‘retires’ to his ‘dacha’, the next Russian in charge will leave Crimea like a bat out of hell.
Boru
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