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It seems clear to me, Putin wants a reason to go in, saying it’s humanitarian, and rush to that population centers, remove suspected dissidents and other undesirables to whatever fate Russia usually uses, get rid of democratically elected officials and install a puppet government like Belorus and then leave and ask for Nobel Peace prize as his reward for not starting general conflagration. He then gets a pro Russian country as a buffer. At least the Baltic states are NATO members otherwise, they are next. And the lights begin to go out once again for Eastern Europe.
I mean, if Putin is shrewd, which he is, he could find a way to, at least on paper, justify the invasion of Ukraine the way we justified the invasion of Iraq. It looks like he is trying different avenues to do that. Further he could justify the military occupation and annexation of Ukraine based on our own post Iraq invasion failures. “Annexation is the only way to prevent chaos and terrorism like we saw in post invasion Iraq…” That’s not to say it would be a valid justification or that we should just let him do it, but George W. Bush set an awful precedent.
Big difference between what’s happened so far and 150 thousand troops marching to Kiev. Could certainly still happen, but this isn’t what was predicted.
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