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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Been saying it for a while, but pretty apparent there is no plan. A concept of one perhaps, but no real plan. I think the original plan was that once the petroleum revenue was in jeopardy there was hope that russia would see it wasn't worth it to continue and would select money over imperialism. Instead, all russia had to do was pivot to other countries and use intermediary countries to continue to sell to the EU.
Literal NK soldiers invading Europe and barely a whisper from the EU or NATO. I supposed we should be happy we at least got the classic strongly worded statements, but even those were lacklustre at best.
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I think the "plan" from the west was probably that they expected Donbas/Crimea to fall and be integrated into Russia. A new border would be drawn and all the defensive weapons that were donated would be used to deter future conflict after the new borders were drawn.
I think western leaders were surprised that Ukraine fought with the heart that it did so now they don't know what to do.