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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
I hate to be Debbie Downer here, but what happens if this all turns? What it looks like to me is that Putin expected a quick surrender and sort of half-assed the invasion. Now, I think they are starting to really pour in troops and hitting soft targets to weaken resistance before they bring in overwhelming numbers. If Kyiv falls in a couple of days. If the Ukrainian president is captured, or more likely shot. What happens then?
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I think more of the same. Sanctions, although not against the people that matter. Russia would be largely isolated from the world.
Also, taking a country is one thing, holding it is another. And I think the strategy from the West would be to wait it out. Can Russia keep down a well-funded, well-armed insurgency while their economy bleeds out?
No matter what happens militarily, I don't think it can be overstated how devastating this has been to their economy.