Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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So, an interest statement from Putin's toady Medvedev in an article in The Guardian today:
'Medvedev, who is deputy chair of Putin’s powerful security council, further warned that Moscow was ready to use “absolutely any weapon” if Ukraine attempted to retake the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014.
Medvedev’s latest apparent threat to use nuclear weapons came amid growing acknowledgment in Moscow that its forces may soon find themselves on the defensive in Ukraine as its own winter offensive appears to be slowing down.'
I'd say it's more than acknowledgment that they'll be on the defensive. If they're starting to throw the name 'Crimea' around now, it seems to me that it's tacit acknowledgement they're well and truly fucked in Ukraine, and are expecting to be beaten back.
Good.