That was a well-known tactic of the Mongols. It worked exceedingly well: Attack them, feint a retreat, and then surround and annihilate them. For a few years, Gengis Kahn was the largest empire in the world -- 'till he wasn't.
The Russians learned well from the Mongols and have eviscerated the Ukie manpower.
What an utterly stupid decision to let the likes of Boris Johnson stop them from ending the SMO after three months.
The only thing worse than being an enemy of the US/West for the survival of your nation is to be a friend!
Let it be over for the sake of humanity.
So you are saying that since the mongols once controlled cast parts of Russia including moscova, they have a “historical” claim to those territories?
Now that Putin is beholden to and dependent on China for its existence, like Taiwan, China may be looking to the north to “correct” historical territorial claims.
Since Putin has basically drained his forces from these and much of the vast regions that are “now” claimed as the Russian federation. Putin may have problems far greater than Ukraine.
Say xi , like putin, decides to invoke historical claims and decides to liberate ethnic Chinese from Russian oblasts, what can Putin do.
Which would be more difficult, invade Taiwan or take er ah liberate historically Chinese lands to the north?
Just a thought, but hey could be wrong Russia and China have a limitless “friendship”😎