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The recent history doesn't seem like it backfired into a hot war. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has to have been in planning and staging for at least several
by ethbr0 5y ago
The recent history doesn't seem like it backfired into a hot war. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has to have been in planning and staging for at least several months.
- lostlogin 5y agoIt’s likely been at least a year in the making. Troop build ups were noticed in March 2021. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–2022_Russo-Ukrainian_crisis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–2022_Russo-Ukrainian_cr...
- vl 5y agoOperation like this takes years to plan and prepare, and if anything it comes surprisingly late, given that civil war continued for 8 years in Ukraine. You would think they would act sooner then risking losing Donabas to Ukrainians. My guess it was delayed by Covid.
- jacquesm 5y agoThat is a great point. I always figured that if this was going to happen that it would be at the moment when America was most confused, the transition period from one president to the next, but you are right, that coincided with COVID which may well have screwed up their timetable.