excerpted:
“...Quite possibly Russia’s objectives in the Ukraine war may change.
The stated objective of the Russian Special Military Operation was to secure the territory of the two breakaway Republics, Donetsk and Luhansk, now annexed to Russia. What the Russians seem to have learned is that stabilizing the line is extremely difficult and costly. What would constitute an acceptable outcome is elusive....”
I am starting to suspect the main Russian objective is to get us to expend our weapon reserves by giving them to Ukraine to waste, but that’s just me.