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Originally Posted by mapuc
Won't change his plane..
First his plane was the entire Ukraine-This failed.
Then he reduced his plan to secure Luhansk and Donbas area.-This failed somehow
Now he has once again reduced his plan to secure Donbas.
I'm pretty sure that in a month or so, the only thing Putin has left to secure is Crimea.
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last weekend: Russia is not against negotiations with Ukraine, but Kiev is disrupting things. You can then interpret that as: Russia is opening the door to a negotiated solution here. But then again you have Dmitri Medvedev, the Vice President of the National Security Council, but above all also ex-President and ex-Prime Minister. Who says a day later: there is only one way to negotiate, and that is if Ukraine agrees to total capitulation on Russian terms. Well, then you don't want to negotiate, you just want Ukraine destroyed according "the plan". It is the paradox we see today. How fast things are moving militarily in Ukraine, so slow are political developments in Moscow. There are no fault lines there. At most, there are some hairline cracks. Of course, no one knows what is really going on in there. But let's do some old-fashioned Kremlinology. There are no indications that anything substantial has changed in the past week. What there is reason to suspect is a lack of clarity about the direction to be taken.