Russia's Invasion of Ukraine (Official Thread)

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America was a completely foreign nation invading though. They didn't speak the language or share the same religion and ancestry as the people they were invading. So it was conceptually easier for the Afgahn abd Iraqi civilians to launch a protracted and costly insurgency against American forces. Ukraine voted in pro-Russian leaders less than 10 years ago. They were a part of the same Union for the vast majority of the 20th century and have an intertwined history going back even further than that. I question the idea that the average Ukranian has the same resolve to fight the Russians that the Afghan and Iraqi people did to fight the Americans. Especially if Putin isn't officially annexing Ukraine and just installing a puppet government. Can definitely see American-backed pro-Western forces keeping it up, especially at the behest of the American Military Industrial Complex and weapons manufacturers, but it would be like the NRF in Afghanistan. The die has been cast. Russia simply has much more at stake in Ukraine than the West.
But Putin can’t run Ukraine is the problem. If the EU/American takes in the refugees of just Western Ukraine he can’t fill that void while also holding Russia. He basically gets mostly empty land and another failing economy


Give credit to the colonial era Europeans. They didn’t bother with peacekeeping propaganda. They subjugated and didn’t care how the population felt.
 
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