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Because they already control 20 percent of Ukraine. The 20 percent they currently control is their prime objective. It ensures that the crimean peninsula rema
by roody15 4y ago
Because they already control 20 percent of Ukraine. The 20 percent they currently control is their prime objective.
It ensures that the crimean peninsula remains russian. It ensures that the north crimean canal stays open providing fresh water. It ensures land access to crimean peninsula. It captures some of the best agricultural lands.
The idea that Russia is looking to conquer all of Ukraine and more is simply war propaganda. It makes no geopolitical sense for them to really conquer much more than they already have.
Russia’s goal would be to destroy the ukrainian army and state apparatus to the point where Ukraine concedes the land they currently under Russian control.
- lisasays 4y agoThe idea that Russia is looking to conquer all of Ukraine and more is simply war propaganda. They probably never wanted to permanently hold all of the territory (especially not predominantly Ukrainian-speaking regions in the west). But it definitely was their stated objective from the very beginning to decapitate the country's current leadership, and install a permanently "friendly" (to Russia) government in its place. Not to simply grab the 4 regions in the east -- which they've still not been able to fully take a hold of, despite explicitly claiming to "annex" them. The idea that the disastrous initial attempt to encircle Kyiv (and the failed attempt to take Odesa) was some kind of brilliantly executed feint to obscure their "true" current (and ever-shrinking) objectives - that, I'm afraid, it simply "war propaganda". It makes no geopolitical sense for them to really conquer much more than they already have. Nothing about what the Russian Federation has done makes any kind of geopolitical sense. It's all just a giant (and incredibly murderous and destructive) fantasy.