Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country

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Spacebattles is expecting a movement similar to Mossad in the post WW2 environment hunting nazis. Helped to no small extent by many Ukrainians having completely valid Russian passports, speaking fluent Russian and sharing a lot of Russia's cultural cues.

And that's before you consider the possibility of Ukraine enthusiastically supporting civil unrest and terrorist activity in Russia as much as possible, with cut outs used only for legal reasons, if that.

It's not going to be Ireland and the Troubles, where the assholes doing the killing were generally not supplied by the government as a matter of government policy. It's not going to be the Gaza strip, with hostile nations facilitating a foreign people's grudge for the sake of a proxy war. It's likely to be a lot worse than that, because Ukraine is not likely to be as lacking in resources. I wouldn't be too surprised by the war never stopping beyond a poorly followed ceasefire and extensive support for insurgent activity in the opposing party until either Ukraine or Russia breaks.