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| Ukraine Future: Finnish Solution or Cyprus Solution |
| 2022-07-05 |
| [BriefingsForBritain] Putin's original plan for Ukraine has failed. His response is escalation. The outcome is unclear. But the range of options is not unlimited, and history suggests the likely possibilities based on the way Russian statecraft and war operate. What is the best available outcome out of a range of imperfect ones? Finnish Solution: keep portions of Donbas and Crimea and a landbridge - formal treaty, recognized boundaries Cyprus Solution : keep more territory than in the Finnish solution but part of the Russian kept territory will be unrecognized internationally |
| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #3 Putin's original plan for Ukraine has failed That is kinda sorta true. A neutral Ukraine, not part of NATO, with no foreign troops or large standing army, and all that chaos in the Donbass sorted out - yeah, that did not work out. So it is on to Plan B - secure defensible positions and fix Donbass. That seems to be working. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-07-05 14:07 |
| #2 Well there’s always the Carthage solution as well |
| Posted by: Cloluck Bourbon1058 2022-07-05 12:41 |
| #1 Failed?, hardly. Western media delusions. This will be done when Putin's Russia decides (Putin's replacement could be far more hostile). Cyprus solution is no solution. Just an eternal conflict. Nothing was resolved. Greeks and Turks have an eternal hatred. The gas fields might be the flash point for the future. |
| Posted by: Dale 2022-07-05 04:07 |