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coffeesp00ns  ·  3679 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Russia Won't Invade Ukraine

I would argue they don't have to "invade". All that Russia has to do is implant or support some Crimean Nationalist or Russian Empiricist agent povocateurs, stir up a whole heap of trouble, then come in as "Peacemakers", or cite a defence of their borders, or claim to be helping for the sake of "slavic unity" of some sort. It's the sort of 19th century nationalistic idealism that might actually work.