There is growing alarm about the pace and prospects of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, with few signs of progress in recent weeks and Russian lines holding strong. Those concerns picked up steam …
The thing is the russian MOD and putin have plainly, and explicitly said that they would not occupy ukraine and set up a government, and that they would not pay for any of the damages in the war. The russians have only held the russian speaking areas in ukraine, and there’s a good reason for this. The imperial core wanted to russia to fight a occupation style war, similar to how the soviets fought in afghanistan. But the SMO has been conducted completely differently, the russians fight a defensive war, and force the ukrainians to be on the advance. Ukraine cannot win the war in a situation like this.
If that doesn’t change, then it’s less resources and risk holding the Russian-speaking areas, but the West will try and stir the pot in the area. I don’t think we’ll see them simply abandon fascist assets just to use them as scapegoats. I think they’ll keep anti-Russian terrorism going in the region as long as it takes to force Russia to get involved again.
The thing is the russian MOD and putin have plainly, and explicitly said that they would not occupy ukraine and set up a government, and that they would not pay for any of the damages in the war. The russians have only held the russian speaking areas in ukraine, and there’s a good reason for this. The imperial core wanted to russia to fight a occupation style war, similar to how the soviets fought in afghanistan. But the SMO has been conducted completely differently, the russians fight a defensive war, and force the ukrainians to be on the advance. Ukraine cannot win the war in a situation like this.
If that doesn’t change, then it’s less resources and risk holding the Russian-speaking areas, but the West will try and stir the pot in the area. I don’t think we’ll see them simply abandon fascist assets just to use them as scapegoats. I think they’ll keep anti-Russian terrorism going in the region as long as it takes to force Russia to get involved again.