[Mariner]

WTF?

This is a very big deal.

And near admission Russia will take the rest...soon.

[frithguild]

I dont think I have ever seen a FR thread on the total absence of an MSM story. How does the entire Western media spike a story like this? Someone please correct me by posting a story that covers this.

[thegagline]

A simple question:

How come “Trollstoy” tweets are permitted to be posted here but zerohedge is banned?

[Rockingham]

This is a potential fallback position that has long been anticipated by Polish general staff planning. Even if Russia defeated Ukraine, it currently lacks the military power to fully occupy the country, so western Ukraine would become an ungoverned, resistant region with a raging partisan guerrilla war against Russia. When this happened after WW II, the southwest corner of Poland experienced a violent invasion by Ukrainian partisans affiliated with Ukrainian nationalist Stefan Bandera.

Moreover, despite Poland's NATO membership, Putin has made clear that after subduing Ukraine, he expects to dominate and bully Poland into neutrality or aligning with Russia. The Poles will not accept that and would prefer that the western region of Ukraine become a Polish protectorate and buffer statelet against a Russian invasion.

This may all seem implausible except that the long history of Eastern Europe includes episodes in which Poland, Sweden, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Russia in various combinations and alliances viewed for dominance. Notably, the current Polish generosity and good spirit toward Ukraine and the massive flow of Ukrainian refugees marks a putting aside of previous hostility -- and a rare instance in which a country seems to have learned from history.