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[–] [email protected] 111 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Time to throw a little referendum and make Kursk part of Ukraine

[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well it was part of the Kiev Governorate in the early 1700s, it's historical Ukrainian land

[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plus, I hear there are Nazis there. We need to protect the Russians from those Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

Russia kidnapped a ton of Ukrainian children and distributed them throughout Russia. So Ukraine needs to occupy that territory to protect the Ukrainians living there, clearly.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago

I hope it pays off for them

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Do I smell a territory swap coming?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing the strategy is diversion, unless they have specific targets they're going after. Maybe both. Better get ready to exercise the "Sherman Doctrine" because the Russians are going to try to cut off the supply lines as quickly as possible.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

One dude over at NCD said that the target may have been a major oil nd gas distribution hub near the border, which supplies Hungary, Slovakia and eve Turkey to some degree. If the Russians try to recapture it using their usual tactics, they bomb their own critical infrastructure, if they don't, they look weak, and it's a very useful bargaining chip for peace.

I have a feeling that the talking heads calling for an immediate peace along the frontline will stop doing that once Russia also would need to cede territory.