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Ten guys and a tank could get almost to Belgorod over the non-defended part of the Ukraine-Russia border, Prigozhin and 5,000 men could get with in 100 miles of Moscow, and Ukraine has a massive legion of Leopard tanks waiting on the front for a break to hammer.
Just think - if the world took off the shackles and Ukraine no longer cared about the moral high ground, how far could all those reserve tanks units make it? Just start in Kharkiv, point towards Moscow, and drive as fast as possible. They could be shelling Russia’s MOD in Moscow by lunch and make it to St. Petersburg by dinner.
Of course, it wouldn’t stop the war - since Putin would just be hiding on the other side of the country and removing the MOD might actually make the Russia army more effective, but it just goes to show how much of a puppet show this actually is.
I truly think the “moral shackles” could be the reason/key Ukraine can and will win this thing in the end eventually. They realize that the Russian World and way of doing things will inevitably lead to more destruction/war/corruption/bleak future than taking a stand and trying to turn this ship around. There will be more dying and war and internal problems but in the end Ukraine has it in it to do the right thing and what is best for it’s people.
My issue with this assumption is that removing moral shackles from one side of the war, the other wouldn’t care so much afterwards either. In practice this would mean that Putin would think of using nuclear weapons far more often than it would be okay. I believe this war has an element that is kind of like a careful dance around the red button that could destroy most of Europe, if not the world.