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Originally Posted by Damien
Hopefully, this just costs him dearly. If Ukraine refuse to surrender and their occupation is constantly seeing insurgent attacks it'll have a big impact on them.
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He’s lost all grip on reality - Ukraine isn’t South Ossetia or Chechnya. It’s a large European country with a massive border to the West and unlimited resources will flow across it in support of any insurgency. Every secret security service in NATO will have its oar in. Already, the Ukrainian government has just flooded Kiev with tens of 1,000s of AKs, ostensibly to prevent the Russian advance on the city but I suspect with one eye on making life difficult for them should they take it.
Putin may intend to set up two breakaway states in the east and install a friendly government in Kiev, but if he was hoping to turn the army so they support that government I think he’s miscalculated badly, especially if the absolute legends of Snake Island are in any way typical of the general sentiment amongst Ukrainian soldiers.
If he wants to keep Kiev facing east he is going to have to commit to an Afghanistan-style occupation that will rumble on for years, cost a fortune, kill a lot of people and yet will ultimately achieve nothing.