They used to call this the 'Salami Game', we are fighting over a slice of Salami - why fight, I just want one and a single slice of Salami is not worth fighting

They used to call this the 'Salami Game', we are fighting over a slice of Salami - why fight, I just want one and a single slice of Salami is not worth fighting over ... after a while, there is just the string the Salami hung by - that is not worth fighting over either. As to Russia and NATO cyber defence group - Russia will take this badly and may well use it to cease the humanitarian corridors, so the people leave and Russia gets well working infrastructure = let them fight to the end = rubble infrastructure. Recall the USSR was crooked and venally corrupt at all levels - this klepto-culture eventually killed the USSR. Think of economic growth as rolling a snowball, each turn it get a little thicker - but not the USSR, every turn they steal what it grew plus more = Russian snowballs do not grow. The freed parts of the USSR inherited the klepto culture - after the fall = big grab and the first wave of crooked kleptocrats - then came Putin - he allied with the crime gangs who killed off the first wave of kleptocrats and became them. We have all seen the excesses of these kleptos. China has the same problem, but has tried to reform with klepto prison/education/killing. In essence Putin is surrounded with a group of thieves. The people in general hate this and try to defend against it as best they can. In Russia when the USSR was running, they were very good at cash sale fleamarketing - which was allowed as it helped people to exist. Now the next wave of ologarchic kleptocracy has matured. They have grabbed all oil/gas/mineral/wood assets and sell and grab the cash. The military is filled with klepto = theft of all manner of portable goods, metals etc - whatever they can get away with - usually by sharing up the line by giving a cut to the hierarchy. The 2 year conscript military means they have no capable soldiers - even the special forces are goof-offs, display soldiers. The paratroops proved also to be useless floating targets because they suffered huge losses when dropped into groups of well armed soldiers and public. They worked only when dropped onto a surprised soft civilian target. Poland is training pilots for a few squadrons of A10 Warthogs. When word of the 60Km isolated convoy leaked the instructors who were skilled USA battle hardened pilots wanted to have a few Thunder Runs - they would have wrecked that convoy chapter and verse - wiser heads prevailed, as a debacle like that might have been the tipping point if a few USA people were shot down - always a risk with Soviet Air defences = quite good.