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What do you think his motivation was, then?
by ProjectArcturis 3y ago
What do you think his motivation was, then?
- arrrg 3y agoSimple: expansion. Seems like he can get to that goal since western support for Ukraine is shriveling up pathetically. There will be no peace with Putin but a military defeat may be enough to get rid of him. So I don’t really understand at all why Europe and the US are so hesitant when this is a way to obviously damage Putin.
- jfengel 3y agoAs you note above, he was motivated by the thought of an easy win. That would thumb his nose at NATO and be popular at home. It didn't actually need to accomplish anything strategic -- though Ukraine is a bunch of land that's valuable both economically and historically. Having failed to accomplish the easy win, there's no way to back down and say, "Well, never mind". He still desires the emotional goals of owning that land, and having sold it as an existential risk against NATO, he can continue to get support at home. Which will last as long as he can continue to staff it with prisoners and disfavored ethnic groups, and various countries continue to fund it by skirting sanctions.
- T-A 3y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/10/putin-compares-himself-to-peter-the-great-in-quest-to-take-back-russian-lands https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/10/putin-compares...
- codersfocus 3y agohttps://jamestown.org/programs/rd/ https://jamestown.org/programs/rd/ This series was written 8 years ago and predicted another invasion of Ukraine. The tldr is it was a strategy for Putin to remain in power.