He's fighting a few proxy wars... this is a completely different undertaking, Ukraine is

massive, and a totally different undertaking in terms of logistics and manpower required. And all the time the clock is ticking until the Russian state bank can make its debt repayments.

Posted By: promethian1 on February 28th 2022 at 20:50:31

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I dont know much about IR / geopolitics (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 28, 20:26:40
- He may well take Ukraine but he will be embroiled in years of resistance/guerilla warfare (General Chat) - Jim, Feb 28, 20:53:30
- Dont be so sure... the world has moved on since Vladamir's soviet playbook.... (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 28, 20:32:19
  - Sass are in there, have been for years (General Chat) - Real Man, Feb 28, 21:23:46
  - he has much better tools (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 28, 20:34:02
    - Insurgency/assymmetric warfare will then come into play (General Chat) - Old Man, Feb 28, 20:43:20
      - They don’t want the whole of Ukraine (General Chat) - CWC, Feb 28, 21:59:22
    - The arms being supplied to Ukraine will usurp a lot of those things, especially in a (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 28, 20:39:23
      - This is going to be a long war (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 28, 20:42:52
        
        And then his country will be economically destroyed (General Chat) - jamesward, Feb 28, 20:44:32
        
        Putin cannot afford a long war for many many reasons (n/m) (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 28, 20:43:46
        
        when hasn't he been at war recently? (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 28, 20:45:32
        
        He's fighting a few proxy wars... this is a completely different undertaking, Ukraine is (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 28, 20:50:31
        
        economics (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 28, 20:52:12
        
        We had a Lend lease deal with the yanks. (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 28, 20:54:51
        
        just funny money innit (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 28, 20:56:29
        
        I was a member of the British Army of Rhine from 1977... so lived a few minutes (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 28, 20:59:01
        
        In fact my first unit was REME supporting a mobile artillery regiment (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 28, 21:05:41
        
        I commend your service prom (General Chat) - shoddy, Feb 28, 21:04:55
        
        I just posted on an addition ^... thanks . (n/m) (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 28, 21:07:01
        
        Old soldiiers ... get em talking and they wont shut up...ha ha.. (n/m) (General Chat) - promethian1, Feb 28, 21:11:39
- They’ve just applied to join the EU. Putin must be stopped, somehow. (n/m) (General Chat) - NorskyNormann, Feb 28, 20:29:21
- No he's not (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Feb 28, 20:28:45
  - How do you know he’s not going to do that? (n/m) (General Chat) - NorskyNormann, Feb 28, 20:29:54
    - Because he would of done it already (n/m) (General Chat) - ParrotPuncher, Feb 28, 20:35:00
      - Not necessarily. May be testing the west’s response (including Ukraine) (n/m) (General Chat) - NorskyNormann, Feb 28, 20:35:59

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