> ukraine is huge, has 38 million people  less than 20 million and dropping. > a massive border that russia would somehow have to guard and prevent all incursions from smugglers and militia cells. yeah, only if they had experience with doing that for fifty years > insurgencies last years. especially when theyre being funded and supplied by outside parties so? you literally cannot ever answer this. so what? what if they try insurgencies? what would it change? they depopulated themselves, the ones willing to do that would already be dead or fled to the eu. > how long? forever? yes, that is literally the exact intention. just as the us annexed back and pacified the confederacy, they intend to annex back ukraine. its costs are laughably trivial compared to its gains. again and for the last time. you are coping. the west is still processing how they lost and keep retreating into these bizarre fantasies, where an ukraine which was already close to a failed state in 2014 and 2022 and ground down by years and years of attrition warfare would somehow wage a successful guerilla war against an invader they border and share language, culture, religion, everything. this is a military impossibility and simply could not happen, as even the infinitely more skilled and motivated and well networked jihadis have failed at this at a strategically much less important location.
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