• andallthat@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I don’t get the buffer thing. Russia already has an immense, absurdly hard to invade territory, even if anyone had any interest in invading it.

    And if Putin is successful at invading Ukraine and Ukraine becomes Russia, like Crimea… then what? They need more buffer to protect Bigger Russia?

    Unless it’s not buffer against oursiders coming in but a wall against Russians leaving. That I can imagine. “You escaped Putin? Haha, joke’s on you, now have fun with f###ng Lukashenko” sounds like a pretty good deterrent.