
What’s it good for? Putin’s Ukraine calculus
The Intelligence from The Economist
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Is It a War?
To topple the government in kiev, i think that you would probably need to attack ukraine in force. And even once you've done that, my problem with the regime change scenario is that how does russia guarantee that a pro russian president stays in office? The invasion of cri mea was a much simpler task. It used very limited numbers of forces and unmarked personnel so it was very deniable. In military terms, crimea was an easy win for pootin. I don't think it tells us anything about the difficulties of a war in ukraine. Is it a war? Might look crazy to us from the outside, but if you look at the crime
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