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Originally Posted by blankall
It raises the question as to what the Russian goal is at this point. If they occupy Ukraine or install a new government, they are likely going to be met with continued resistance. This isn't like the Crimea, where they can just take over and the population will be significantly pro-Russian. The West of the Ukraine seems fiercely anti-Russian. Are the Russians just going to be an occupying power for decades? Can Russia maintain that?
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I just read an analysis that says Russia has enough troops deployed to occupy Ukraine east of the Dnieper and along the Black Sea coast at about the same force density as the U.S. had in Iraq. So I doubt their ambitions were ever more than that. But who knows how deluded Putin is.