I am afraid that Putin will conduct a raid into Ukraine. He will destroy their bridges, factories, power stations and railway hubs.
My understanding is that Russia is not strong enough to occupy Ukraine, but they are able to do this march of destruction.
Then he will withdraw and declare that “Russia beat America”. He will say, that evil Americans were planning to ride across these bridges using these railways and so on to attack Mother Russia.
I hope I am wrong and that Ukraine is able to make Russians bleed so much for this kind of raid that it will be enough to discourage Putin.
Ukraine failed to secure the coal suply to run its powerplants and refused to buy Russian natural gas for this winter.
The regime is weeks before collapse, where it is going to get removed by the civil unrest or coup.
The only condition for the Russian involvement is the attempt by the Kiev regime to attack Dobnbas to placate all of the above.