> 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

> 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.