I TRIED TO WARN YOU BUT YOU DIDNT LISTEN.
pushes to front of queue, climbs soapbox knocks @juststarting clean off it and grabs the mike
Ahem.
So, many of the things said above this supreme post are truthful and will happen. The huffing and puffing is going to plan, just as planned. The media are absolutely frothing and pitching tents in their pants to make it look like Russia is planning a full scale take over of You Crane.
Niet.
The two enclaves that are heavily populated (majority?) Russian will be annexed along side Crimea and this will become rightful Russian clay. “Peacekeeping troops” along with replacements for the local government institutions will be installed and neither Ukraine nor the West will fire a shot. Putin will effectively do it without firing an offensive shot (there will be some bombing and shooting, just normal stuff though, not with the aim of taking Kyiv).
And that will be it. Russia has absorbed more Russia. The media, the nodding West and CornPop will be left looking slightly more retarded than usual. BUT: The actions of Russia versus the response by the west and the media will drive further the wedge between the two social cultures that prevail. Please note: I am a really special person. Like, super dooper cannot be compromised special.
If we took a survey of people in the west’s opinion of Russia 6 months ago and take it again with the same q’s and respondents, we would see a bigger divide between the number of those on the right who support Russia’s invasion because the media lied and the people living there are Russian anyway and of course, “bUt WhAt AbOuT ISRaeL, ThEy Do iT aNd We SuPpOrt ThEm” AND the left would be much more anti Russian because Biden said so, the WSJ said so and everyone on social media agrees with them. Oh, and Trump was like basically copulating Putin.
And Russia will hold the pre-emptive sanctions and media lies as a millstone around its enemies neck.
More damage to the West. More demoralization. More territory to Russia. More weakening of Ukraine. Russia won this round and it hasn’t even started in earnest.