expend the entirety of their inherited soviet stockpiles, deplete all of their meticulously cultivated soft power in europe and central asia, and undo all economic gains since the collapse of the ussr to hold onto less than 20% of ukraine and create a generations long insurgency nightmare along a thousand km long border with a population that fluently speaks their language and can effortlessly pass as ethnic russians the nato shit is irrelevant, russia is actively pulling troops from their borders with nato to feed into ukraine. anyone taking that shit seriously at this point is unironically fucking retarded.
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