Macron to Putin: "you are lying to yourself"

[EarthFirst]

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[SoonerPride]

1. The only way he will possess Ukraine is if he kills all 44 million people

........which he may attempt to do.

But short of that he will face a permanent insurgency with inadequate force to hold it forever.

Russia will eventually be driven out.

It might take years.

[lapfog_1]

5. I was just thinking...

time for the civilian government of Ukraine to disappear... and for the armed forces to melt into the forests of the western part of the country (supplied by Poland, Romania).

Wait 6 months while puppets are put into place by Moscow, backed by the Russian Army...

And, in one coordinated effort... the Ukrainians kill all of them and capture their weapons.

Maybe it's "French resistance" time for Ukraine, obviously no one is coming to their aid...

[sky_masterson]

2. Russia will defeat itself

Darwin award to be renamed Putin Award

[andym]

3. Putin wants to recreate the Eastern Bloc-- he has said as much

First, he needs to recreate the Soviet Union by taking back its territories. He has Georgia, Chechnia, Crimea (used to be part of the Ukraine), and now wants the Ukraine. Next on his shopping list would be Moldova (Ukraine's neighbor). He doesn't care about recreating the communist aspects of the SU, just the territorial integrity under his authoritarian control.

How will he try to get the rest? Probably by starting with the Baltic states.
Finland is not part of NATO so they would his first target.

Nuclear blackmail would be one guess on how he proceeds. Basically hand it over or WWIII.
He thinks the West is weak and so against war that Putin can bully himself into whatever he wants.

[Caliman73]

4. Not the Eastern Bloc, the Russian Empire.

Putin has gone after Soviet leaders for ceding any land when the USSR was formed. Putin wants the Russian Empire, whose territory exceeded that of the Soviet Union.

[poli-junkie]

6. A drone should've tracked down this call.