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Originally Posted by deltav
I've been surprised that Russia's kept the rhetoric & pressure up, gotta think it's a bluff because I see absolutely zero benefit from invading.
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I think I know why Putin is doing that. We all know that the USA and EU have announced personal sanctions against his close friends after the annexation of Crimea. Now these guys need something to be used as a threat as a condition for lifting of all those sanctions. I.e. "we can annex the eastern half of the Ukraine but we won't do it if you lift all those Crimea-related sanctions". This is how I see it
