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Colonel MacGregor said he thinks the end result will be as you said. He Russia doesn’t want to go past the river (Westward) because that region is clearly Ukrainian culture. On the East side, it was Russian language, culture etc. and Ukrainians moved in, but it remains Russian culturally. Makes sense

[caww]

Yep....I said before when Russia was building it's land-bridge it looked even then that the end result would be determined by the river. Either way this goes Russia will retain it's landbridge give or take here and there whatver land they'll do without.