You kidding me? You try to explain this to these geeks and expect a decent reply?
Here is a fact for the geeks around here. Long time ago Putin said that he could not imagine the world without a Russia.
What’s that say about his mental state?
Russian forces will take the Ukraine. That is a fact, but they wont hold it. And if NATO so much as makes any attempt to insert forces into the country, Putin will use nuclear weapons. That is another fact. If it comes to that, the best hope we have is that his commanders wont follow his orders. Did the Germans follow Hitlers orders near the end of WW2? Every single one of them did until the very last dog was hung.
So Drew, have at it, Try and explain this stuff to these geeks.
Maybe, maybe not. Russians tried to take Chechnya and failed. So they went back a second time and leveled Grozny to rubble. They've held it ever since and today, Chechens are loyal Russian fighters.
The last time I was in Luhansk, everyone there wanted Russian visas so they could move there where the standard of living was better. In Europe, only Moldova is poorer than Ukraine. Most of east Ukraine looks like Detroit. I'd never before seen white people living in such squalor.