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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putin is hosed. He's backed himself into an unwinnable situation. Too bad for the Russian people. [/quote]

How so? Europe and the US are not going to lift a finger to save Ukraine. Sanctions aren't going to do much. OPEC has more loyalty to its own members than outsiders, and Saudi Arabia won't budge on oil, which means Europe has a gas problem, since it gets its gas from Russia. China is in Russia's corner purely to act as counterweight against the West, which it wants to destabilize, on its way to becoming the world's next superpower.

Yes, it's an unwinnable situation for Ukraine and the West.

If you have opposing views backed by logical arguments, I'd be happy to be proved wrong.

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Putin can't win. A war in Ukraine would be a long, grinding, house-to-house affair in urban places. Ukraine is the size of the north eastern quarter of the United States. It is not small. Such an action would make Russia a pariah-state. For a country with an economy smaller than Canada's, the effort would be devastating. [/quote]

People are focused on what this will cost Ukraine or the United States or Western Europe. That makes some sense since a self-centered perspective is fairly natural. But such an action will cost Russia as well, and many of the doomsayers don't seem to take into consideration the costs to Russia. [/quote]

It has been said before, and the cost to Russia will be far greater than the cost to the US or Europe.  And this could easily destabilize Russia and cost Putin personally.[/quote]

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