Originally Posted by
ORAC
Indeed ORAC. As has been stated there, this is the latest in a series of provocations that test those who might be minded to resist Putin's ambitions to bring back into the fold those states that left it to join the West (and some even NATO). We can in retrospect see a similar strategy by Hitler. The plausible and excusable reuniting of former German states, then foreign but German speaking states, then German speaking minority areas of foreign states, then foreign states entirely. Only at the last was he truly challenged, but too late then to prevent total war.
Are we seeing the same here?
Like Hitler, Putin is a chancer, as are all invaders essentially. They may well lose the gamble, but so does everybody else in the end.