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To: Les H who wrote (34079)	11/18/2022 9:57:12 AM
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John Mearsheimer on Putin’s Ambitions After Nine Months of War The realist political scientist explains why Russia’s move to annex four Ukrainian provinces isn’t imperialism. newyorker.com As Zelensky had stated in 2019, NATO is going to war with Russia within 5 years. They prepared by training and arming a 360,000 ground force in Ukraine since 2015 after Minsk 2. After intensified shelling of the Donbas from February 14 to 24, Russia invaded with a force of 80,000 against 220,000 Ukraine at the contact line. The small invasion force and the peace negotiations in March indicated they were seeking a Minsk 3 with Russian peacekeepers in the Donbas. All this nonsense about conquering all of Ukraine or invading adjacent countries used by fearmongers in the West is completely unfeasible without a full mobilization of the economy. There has been a lot of speculation that Kherson city and Odessa were part of a secret agreement between the US and Russia. The decision to withdraw from Kherson city to better deploy the 30,000 soldiers for a winter offensive has been in the works for weeks. They've withdrawn twice from Kharkiv in the last six months. Unlike Ukraine, they pull out if they find a cauldron is forming and threatens large losses.