Putin is also facing more pressure at home from Russian Youth and also suffers from a lack of enthusiasm with people joining the military. Russia currently conscripts 400,000 of its roughly 2,000,000 strong army. Which is still significantly larger than the roughly 1,000,000 man Ukrainian army but Russia can’t deploy all of its forces while Ukraine can. Ukraine would probably also experience a lot of support from other Western nations even if they don’t intervene directly.
A major difference in the prior Russian invasion was that the people were against the Ukrainian government, this would be entirely different as Russia would be invading pro-Ukraine territory and would have to fight a guerrilla war.
Of course all do this is speculation but I don’t think Russia will truly “invade”
Why should RU do that?
Because of US and NATO forces in UKR near the boarder?
Or to protect the RU people in Donbas?
RU is big, they have all resources they need - not like GER in WW2, no need to expand.
Thdy have sanctions, should they fear for more?
I don’t think Russia has much value on resources and that is definitely not its aim. If Russia wanted to protect the people in Donbas it would’ve ended this war immediately after it started by actually supporting Donbas with troop. The only thing Putin has showed it that he doesn’t care much for people, especially considering is support for a regime in Syria that gas attacks his own people.
We don’t know what paradise is like, but probably it’s blue magenta, flecked with pink. But even if it’s green and red-checked we should make the most of it. -Boron saying