I see no evidence that Russia has plans to go “deep into Ukraine.” It looks like securing the land bridge to Crimea and the Russian speaking oblasts is the goal, along with destroying the Ukrainian armed forces and whatever material NATO is foolish enough to transport into the theatre.
I see no evidence that Russia has plans to go “deep into Ukraine.” It looks like securing the land bridge to Crimea and the Russian speaking oblasts is the goal, along with destroying the Ukrainian armed forces and whatever material NATO is foolish enough to transport into the theatre.
Doesn't "destroying the Ukrainian armed forces and whatever material NATO is foolish enough to transport into the theatre" accomplish demilitarization and denazification? And is a rump Ukraine any more dangerous than Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland that are already mostly NATOized and right on Russia's border?
I see no evidence that Russia has plans to go “deep into Ukraine.” It looks like securing the land bridge to Crimea and the Russian speaking oblasts is the goal, along with destroying the Ukrainian armed forces and whatever material NATO is foolish enough to transport into the theatre.
Oh?
So demilitarization and denazification are off the table?
And Russia is going to allow NATO to build up a rump Ukraine?
Doesn't "destroying the Ukrainian armed forces and whatever material NATO is foolish enough to transport into the theatre" accomplish demilitarization and denazification? And is a rump Ukraine any more dangerous than Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland that are already mostly NATOized and right on Russia's border?