History in the Making: Russian Invasion

bearmtnmartin (Forum Supporter) said:

 

Replace Ukraine and Russia with Canada and US and it is pretty applicable today........

I think that it's best that we leave that one alone.

Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:

bearmtnmartin (Forum Supporter) said:

 

Replace Ukraine and Russia with Canada and US and it is pretty applicable today........

I think that it's best that we leave that one alone.

Yes, certainly not the place for it.

That said, I was immediately reminded of a line from the introduction of Eliot Cohen's Conquered Into Liberty : "...I eagerly resumed work on this book, which deals with America's most durable, and in many ways most effective and important enemy of all. Canada." (The book, it's worth noting, is excellent, and deals with the late 17th to early 19th Centuries.)

In reply to aircooled :

Without question, Russia will do everything in its power to skew the elections in their favor. That could be anything from outright interference, to something more subtle, such as simply pouring money into the weakest and most fringe campaigns to ensure no consensus can be reached (if a far-right Ukrainian party emerges, I can guarantee 100% that Russia will both complain bitterly about it and dump money into it; hell, they might even create one, just to muddy the waters and prove themselves right about "Ukrainian Nazis").

In reply to 02Pilot :

I just ran across an interesting comment on elections in Ukraine:  The observation was that Russia kind of screwed itself looking for a Russian leaning election result in Ukraine, by taking over all the Russian supporting areas in Ukraine!

Of course, I suspect the election result they are looking for is far less "yeah we want to be Russia" and more "we give up".