• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The idea is that after some kind of cease fire, russia will churn out stuff for 3-4-5 years (so mebbe 1.000 tanks?) and then not go full frontal against NATO but say take a bite out of Lithuania, just to see what the response will be.

    Like they have been doing since forever (Chechnya, Moldavia, Georgia, Ukraine and so on).

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      2 days ago

      Correct. The issue with Ukraine though is they fought back and didn’t give any land to Russia. Now Putin needs to save face and how many people put through the meat grinder to do that is irrelevant.