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I don't think he cares about conquering Poland, he's not even interested in conquering Western Ukraine (that used to be Poland before WW2). If there is any nuke
by bitL 4y ago
I don't think he cares about conquering Poland, he's not even interested in conquering Western Ukraine (that used to be Poland before WW2). If there is any nuke targeted at a NATO country I bet the first will be Poland just to make the rest of NATO think through if Poland is worth full nuclear war or not. Russia has the escalate-deescalate doctrine anyway. Nobody is going to punish Russia militarily, that would be a suicide for any country that would attempt it. The only way out of this mess is diplomacy and not further escalation from both sides as we see. I think the current world "leaders" lost their minds already and are far from statesmen of old that were willing to compromise on their objectives in order to prevent the unthinkable.
- nyokodo 4y ago> I don't think he cares about conquering Poland. he's not even interested in conquering Western Ukraine (that used to be Poland before WW2). Who’s buying that line after columns of Russian troops tried to blitzkrieg Kyiv earlier in the war? Not to mention that eastern Ukraine is useless to Russia from a strategic perspective. They need to secure the Polish gap, the entirety of the Carpathian Mountains down to the Bessarabian gap, and across to the Baltic coast through the Baltic States. That shrinks the Russian border down to a limited and highly defensible size. Putin has long bemoaned that Russia gave all that up when the Soviet Union split up.