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It's possible but I dont think it's at all likely given the immense cost of invasion and the sheer impossibility of occupying. Putin is not unaware that Russia

by pydry 5y ago

It's possible but I dont think it's at all likely given the immense cost of invasion and the sheer impossibility of occupying. Putin is not unaware that Russia will come out of this bloody and bruised and nearly broken (potentially completely) and he's not irrational either.

simonh 5y ago
He may be aware of that now, but I don't think he was at all aware of it a week ago. I think he was expecting an easy takeover just like Crimea.
- pydry 5y ago
  That's absurd.
  - simonh 5y ago
    We have two examples of Russian tanks rolling into an east European territory and taking it over almost bloodlessly. Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Crimea in 2014. I don't think it's at all absurd to think he was trying for a third.