I’d wager Putin will stop at Crimea and enough of the Donbas to provide their naval bases there with water, or worst case take Ukraine and stop. Netanyahu will never stop until he bites off more than he can chew ala when Hitler invaded Russia, which in this case, I imagine will be when he invades Turkey, which has the second largest military in NATO.
Nobody in Russia ever claimed it would be a 3 day sweep. This is a narrative that was made up entirely in the west. That said though, we now know for a fact that the war could’ve been over in the first two months if the west didn’t sabotage Istanbul talks.
I’d wager Putin will stop at Crimea and enough of the Donbas to provide their naval bases there with water, or worst case take Ukraine and stop. Netanyahu will never stop until he bites off more than he can chew ala when Hitler invaded Russia, which in this case, I imagine will be when he invades Turkey, which has the second largest military in NATO.
‘putin won’t bite off more than he can chew unlike bibi’
I hear a lot of neolib warmonger talk about how well Ukraine is doing for how well they demonstrably seem to be doing
Nobody in Russia ever claimed it would be a 3 day sweep. This is a narrative that was made up entirely in the west. That said though, we now know for a fact that the war could’ve been over in the first two months if the west didn’t sabotage Istanbul talks.
Also, last I checked Russian industry and economy is thriving right now. A lot of that is a result of western sanctions ironically which created domestic niches for businesses to fill, and stopped capital flow out of Russia. World bank just moved Russia up into a high income country as a result https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024-2025
Also, incredible that people believe that Russian manpower has been decimated when even US military officials openly admit that Russian army is now stronger https://www.voanews.com/a/us-air-force-general-russia-military-larger-better-than-before-ukraine-invasion/7788601.html
The place where industry and the economy have been decimated is Europe.