RE: The US should not intervene in Ukraine!
April 12, 2014 at 2:50 pm
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2014 at 3:53 pm by Autumnlicious.)
It is expensive for the Russian military to be parked on the Ukrainian border.
The longer the US and Ukraine can keep them on the border threatening to do something but not doing anything, the more untenable it becomes for Russia.
Putin needs to save face. If he cannot get a conflict, or a very stupid politician on the opposing side, then he will look foolish when it becomes too expensive for the Russian military to remain there.
I agree with the original post – the US should not militarily intervene in Ukraine. The US instead should force Russia to pretend and posture along Ukrainian border for as long as possible.
Consider Crimea a loss, and instead focus on attempting to give liquidity to Ukraine and spin up the light manufacturing in the western Ukraine to compensate for the economic losses.
If the Ukraine is not bankrupted by Putin's oil price war, then he will have effectively lost his attempt at subjugating a former satellite state.
The longer the US and Ukraine can keep them on the border threatening to do something but not doing anything, the more untenable it becomes for Russia.
Putin needs to save face. If he cannot get a conflict, or a very stupid politician on the opposing side, then he will look foolish when it becomes too expensive for the Russian military to remain there.
I agree with the original post – the US should not militarily intervene in Ukraine. The US instead should force Russia to pretend and posture along Ukrainian border for as long as possible.
Consider Crimea a loss, and instead focus on attempting to give liquidity to Ukraine and spin up the light manufacturing in the western Ukraine to compensate for the economic losses.
If the Ukraine is not bankrupted by Putin's oil price war, then he will have effectively lost his attempt at subjugating a former satellite state.
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