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NWSRG
So what do we get in place of Putin? It could be better or worse, and none of us knows which yet. My point was not about worrying about Putin, it is that we ought to worry about the uncertainty that comes with a new regime.
the anger in the street so far appears to be as much about the incompetence of the prosecution of the war as about the lunacy of the war. What follows will depend on who gets to rush the gates of the bunker first as much as anything else. The escalation option has real and quite certain risks to Russia's own population with many population centres downwind of any areas of escalation, as well as a major amount of the arable land of Russia. Putin is the existential threat to Russia, not Ukraine. Navalny seems like one of the only rational rallying points for a soft landing of the Russian adventure in real estate. In 1917, the army revolted, and that could be the trigger for a soft landing, the hawks that sit in Moscow may not be so vocal with an AK-12 stuck up their nostrils by conscripts who have been deceived by management.
Where is the VVS? It is more difficult to donate the VVS equipment to the Ukrainian defence I guess.
The redeployment seems to have forgotten to include their hardware, donations appreciated by Ukraine.