The 2nd Crimean War?

[robkelk]

robkelk wrote:

ordnance11 wrote:robkelk wrote:ordnance11 wrote:Begun, the Ukrainian War has.

We knew that back in March...

That when Putin was using surrogates. That was plausible deniability. Now that he is using his own troops? Only the most gullible would believe it.

There's been a fair bit of evidence since March that the "little green men" are RF soldiers with the insignia removed from their uniforms.The Russians can claim that these are "volunteers" prior to this point. No one is believing them, but it's a fig leaf. Putin must be getting desperate.

Either desperate, or sufficiently (over)confident that aren't going to do anything to stop him.
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Rob Kelk
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