If you dont think you will meet any resistance then how long it takes to 'liberate' a country is how long it takes to drive your column from it's staging areas to the capital and hold a press conference on the steps of the parliament declaring it free, which in the case of the Ukraine would be around 2 days, because even without any resistance large armies dont move quickly, now it would be moronic to think you could do that if you supposed the Ukrainians would fight back at all but clearly Putin didn't think that anyone would fight, that this war would be just a case of driving to Kyiv in a couple of days and then telling the west 'look, they really like us'.
Believing that is clearly moronic but once you believe that everything else the Russians have done makes sense
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