drkohler said:
Well, Putin's plan is pretty obvious, but nobody dares to print it in the papers. What he least wants is a surrender at this time. Currently it is estimated that 1.5 to 2 mio Ukranians will flee or have fled the country. More will do in the next days so the end result will be: a) These people are not coming back, ever, on their own. b) Putin will send Russians to fill the empty spaces so he has at least a good minority number of Russians in the cities. Like the Dombass region he can then claim Russia has to protect those people. A "public vote" will then turn the Ukraine into a Russian province. |
Hmm, its pretty hard to by that Putin actually want this war to continue and did not instead believe that it would be done and over within within days. Could you elaborate on this point. If the reports that have been coming in are true, its highly doubtful you would be running out of supplies and resources if you expected to be within a longer contracted war. I also do not believe you understand the situation correctly. Yes, people are going to flee but once occupation takes place you will then need to deal with a constant surge of fighters running guerrilla warfare. Taking the country was suppose to be the easy part, keeping it is with a long contracted war is something totally different especially if your military is going to be stretched.
Putin needed this to end quick and have that surrender on paper and then craft the message to the world that he is a hero alleviating Urkraine from the evil Nazi menace. The longer the war goes on, all message gets muddier and muddier and his stance and the Russia nation crumbles trying to hold up that BS talking point.
