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Originally Posted by RickeyM
You seem to be under the impression that Putin would stop with "eastern" Ukraine.
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If Russia goes deep into Ukraine the Poles would enter the fray wholeheartedly. Russia does not want to tangle full time with the Poles. The Poles are a top notch outfit with serious American connections.
To me the basic aim of the Russians is to lock off Eastern Ukraine and importantly to destroy the Ukrainian armies so in the future Ukraine would be timid undertake conventional warfare.
They have succeeded in this pursuit to a great extent largely because of the effectiveness of the
Surovikin Line.
The Line held the Ukrainians and gave the Russians just that bit of time for building a huge army and putting the economy on a war footing.
The Russians have destroyed several Ukrainian armies so far to the point where Ukraine's biggest problem now is manpower not equipment.
The Ukrainian people know that, the other Europeans sense that, General Zalushny knows that and said so and he was replaced by a General whom the Ukrainian troops referred to as the "Butcher".