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Yeah, I really don’t get what the plan was. Unless they are expecting to be able to completely annex Ukraine, I don’t know what Russia hopes to gain that it did
by csb6 3y ago
Yeah, I really don’t get what the plan was. Unless they are expecting to be able to completely annex Ukraine, I don’t know what Russia hopes to gain that it didn’t already get with the annexation of Crimea and continuing the War in Donbas stalemate conflict.
Just maintaining those conflicts indefinitely would prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and would have attracted a lot less international attention to Ukraine. It also would have been a lot cheaper in terms of economic sanctions and military losses.
- ProjectArcturis 3y agoI think the plan was to capture Kyiv with paratroopers in the first 24 hours and install a puppet government. After that, plan B was to do it by encircling the capital with armored units. That got bogged down and repelled. Ukraine wouldn't accept a peace deal without recovering Crimea and Donbas, which they are very far from taking by force. So both sides are going to grind it out until one of them has a political rupture a la 1917 or 1991.
- nojvek 3y agoOh the day when Russia collapses. I doubt it will happen. They have a ton of natural resources. The oil and gas corps alone can hold the entire economy afloat (Gazprom, Lukoil, Rosneft) and fund their tanks and missiles.
- nerdix 3y agoIt was about creating a land bridge connecting Russia to Crimea and securing Crimea's access to water from the Dnipro river. One of Ukraine's goals with last year's offensive was to sever the land bridge. That objective failed. Ironically, Russia (likely) blew up the Kakhovka dam to slow down that Ukrainian offensive and thus severely restrained water access to Crimea (which they had fully reestablished in the early days of the war).