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In the longer term there's realistically no chance of Ukraine regaining the land it lost. In both this scenario and that scenario Russia annexes part of Eastern Ukraine, but in that scenario there aren't hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainians.



And what exactly do you think Putin will do after he successfully exits this particular engagement?

Past performance is, in fact, often quite a reliable guarantee of future results.


Lick his wounds for years, and die.

This Ukraine debacle wasn't the clean win he wanted.


If you believe Putin only wants "clean wins," you've fundamentally misunderstood his character.

It's a binary outcome from his perspective. If he obtains his his key objectives at some survivable cost, that's a win for him.




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