I was feeling masochistic so I browsed reddit logo for a while, and remembered that all pro-Ukraine folks seem to take this as a fact. I remember trying to look into this and not finding any evidence, and angry libs were not exactly forthcoming with sources themselves.

So besides the initial feint towards Kyiv (which AFAIK is circumstantial at best) was there ever any evidence pointing towards some Russian plan to eventually annex the entirety of Ukraine?

  • Catradora-Stalinism☭
    3·
    9 months ago

    well they did annex part of ukraine, but that was definitely not the intention at the beginning. Russia did not anticipate how this would turn out at all. Although they quickly turned it in their favor.

    • albiguOP
      4·
      9 months ago

      And even if they had initially intended for that, that wouldn’t change the issue too much. But the narrative that Ukraine is not loosing the war hinges on taking as a fact the hypothesis of a full annexation being the main war goal. On r/worldnews there was even an article by the Kyiv Post about a “Russian Strategic Defeat” due to them not controlling the whole of Ukraine yet.

      Like @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml said, I also think they might at the very least march into the rest of Ukraine to force capitulation, though I don’t think they’ll seek full annexation as they’ll have even more flanks directly facing into NATO.