Putin's Decapitation Strike on Kyiv

If not for the regime change, sanctions and the US and the West, Lukashenko would have been decapitated. This is one of those unintended consequences that pushed Lukashenko completely into Putin's arms. He thought he had a real opportunity now that the head, the capo of Belarus owed him. It wouldn't have been a 50 mile race. It would have been hundreds of miles.