What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped

Re:What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, exper... by littlestymaar on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @04:34PM (#30533508)

> Russia has claimed that the mission is to liberate Ukraine from Nazis, which is why you see videos of unarmed civilians not being immediately run over by trucks.

> If the mission changes to kill as many civilians as possible, the army is going to have an even worse morale problem

I agree. This is indeed one of the biggest challenge the Russian army will face if they decide to do so.

> the international community will come up with a creative solution like giving part of Poland to Ukraine, giving Ukrainian citizenship to anyone within that part of Poland and then launching attacks with all the military resources that just happen to now be in Ukraine.

This is hilarious, I love it. Never gonna happen, but I love the creativity here. This is “thinking out of the box”.

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Re:What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, exper... by brimble on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @04:46PM (#30533644)

The more realistic "creative use of borders" I anticipate is citing historic claims of (mostly) Poland to carve off a big chunk of Ukraine in the West into a new state, and put it under explicit or implied ("just try and see what happens") NATO protection. I don't expect that unless Russia starts having a lot more success, though, and both they and Ukraine start to signal that they might accept a partition of the country to end hostilities.

[EDIT] Further caveat that it'd have to be before substantial Russian ground forces reach that part of the country. This is still a low-likelihood scenario, but certainly far more likely than declaring part of Poland to be in Ukraine (?!)

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