Residents take part in a military exercise for civilians in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 13. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
The Guardian: West plans to arm resistance if Russian forces occupy Ukraine
Invasion ‘must be seen to fail’, says Boris Johnson, as western allies hold secret talks about how to give military backing to Kyiv
Secret discussions are under way between western allies over how to arm what they expect to be fierce Ukrainian resistance in the event of a Russian invasion that topples the Kyiv government.
Boris Johnson laid bare the case for such a move in a dramatic speech to the Munich security conference where he stated it was in the collective self-interests of the west for any Russian invasion to “fail and be seen to fail”.
He said that any invasion would lead to “a generation of bloodshed and misery” as Ukrainians would fight a fierce campaign to resist Russian forces.
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WNU Editor: Here is an interesting read .... Can Ukrainian Resistance Foil a Russian Victory? (Brian S. Petit, War On The Rocks).
I can see a guerilla movement being active in western Ukraine if they receive weapons and material support from the West. But in the rest of the country such a resistance movement will have problems, especially in regions with large Russian-Ukrainian populations.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Demographics
Large?
17.3% of the population is sizeable but not large.
1 in 6.
East of the river it is enough to fuck up and fuck over a guerilla group.
The thing is send in troops heavy now and stare down Putin with nukes. \
Sending arms to partisans in a bleeding operation until the partisans get ground down in immoral. It was done in the 50s in Ukraine and Tibet by the CIA.
We sent weapons to jihadists in Syria so I can't see the CIA suddenly clutching their pearls over the neonazis in Ukraine.
Sure everyone in Syria is a Jihadist.
If they are, what does it speak to and will the intellectuals finally speak the truth after 77 years?
If the CIA has been conducting bleeding campaigns, since its inception, does the US really need a CIA? Can it afford a CIA?
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