re: #242 Teukka

Yeah. But it comes with its own complications…

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
— Admiral Josh Painter, “The Hunt for Red October”

Also, remember the rule of thumb for how dickwaving contests always end: Someone comes out of nowhere, whips his out, and makes the others cry…

Realistically, Putin doesn’t want a shooting war at all, he wants NATO to back down and cede Ukrainian soil if not the country as a whole. The Russian economy could not sustain a war of any real length without further compromising the already poor state of life for the peasantry. His only real hope is to create a scenario where NATO splinters as the various members put domestic concerns over their treaty obligations.