Mr. Jones, your reasonable Realpolitik outlook is refreshing - your military analysis is, sorry to say, a bit naive - like others in the West, you impose what you think Putin's objectives are, over what he stated them to be: denazify, demilitarize and neutralize Ukraine - occupying it was never a goal - moreover to do so with only a couple hundred thousand troops, impossible - so what of the Russian Army's so-called 'stall out' as it approached Kyiv ? classic feinting tactic - what did it achieve ? it pinned down half the Ukraining Army defending an objective Russia had no intention of taking, while it has effectively cut off the rest of Ukraine's forces, splitting them into 3 sections which can no longer aid one another - here, listen to an expert describe it: "Is Russia Losing the War in Ukraine?" former Marine, military scholar, Scott Ritter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyXyouRs9Ug
Mr. Jones, your reasonable Realpolitik outlook is refreshing - your military analysis is, sorry to say, a bit naive - like others in the West, you impose what you think Putin's objectives are, over what he stated them to be: denazify, demilitarize and neutralize Ukraine - occupying it was never a goal - moreover to do so with only a couple hundred thousand troops, impossible - so what of the Russian Army's so-called 'stall out' as it approached Kyiv ? classic feinting tactic - what did it achieve ? it pinned down half the Ukraining Army defending an objective Russia had no intention of taking, while it has effectively cut off the rest of Ukraine's forces, splitting them into 3 sections which can no longer aid one another - here, listen to an expert describe it: "Is Russia Losing the War in Ukraine?" former Marine, military scholar, Scott Ritter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyXyouRs9Ug