Interesting.
After reviewing the maps and general terrain I can see how strategic it may become.
Russia’s performance in the Ukraine is poor. Logistics, Combined arms strategy and tactics. Poor A/D and poor control of the battle space.
Putin may be a tyrant but he’s not insane.
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I’m not even seeing how he is a tyrant. He stands for elections more honest that ours. People there are free. And as for the Ukraine war, he worked directly and explicitly for over a decade to prevent it. He did not mislead us but told us precisely what Russia’s red lines were and why. He repeatedly asked for negotiations on the issue. Again, we flipped him the finger. And we did it with maximum rudeness. We told him we would not discuss NATO with him at all, and would only discuss what we deemed Russia’s needs. Nothing more.
We flipped him the finger hard and then charged on with our plan, which included a modern nazi regime on his border. And now we are shocked and he is a “tyrant” for backing up his clearly stated warnings.
I just don’t see any tyrant, just someone who is reading the room and knows the score and set his sails not to get run over by Globohomo.