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Originally Posted by pastarocket
I think that the end game for this Russian invasion needs to come from within the Russian military and government.
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IMO, the (realistic) best we can hope for in the Ukraine invasion is for Russia to realize how costly and unsustainable an on-going and drawn out military campaign is, thereby causing them to recall / withdraw their forces back to Crimea, Donbas / Luhansk, and the whole Ukraine - Belarus - Russia region resorts to an uncomfortable truce. A senior US Defence official has indicated that Russia has deployed nearly all of its combat-capable troops to Ukraine. That means if Russia still cannot take over the front line battle zones soon, they would very likely be unable to keep up with the war effort as their losses mount, and their supplies dwindle down. Even if they were able to make some headway in Kyiv or other frontline cities, it is questionable whether they'd have any excess capability to deploy to fight other parts of Ukraine -- venturing further west means a longer supply line, and you have to leave some troops behind in the city(ies) that you have defeated and occupy.