Any Guesses Which Way This Ukraine Story Is Heading?

[nailit]

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[Stargazer]

cornered rat using nuclear weapons

[Stickybottle]

Badly for Putin but not before a humanitarian/refugee crisis

[Hopkirk]

My hope is that some sense may prevail among the people in the Kremlin, and that they carry out a coup to remove mad Vlad.

Another Russian Revolution.

[nailit]

Heres my guess
(And I hope its just a guess)
Its just a bit of sabre rattling.
A bit of flexing of muscles.

I think Putin will back down,
And things will return to normal.
(along with inflation etc)

[davebro]

an uneasy peace with Russia annexing E Ukraine.

[david small]

Proliferation based upon arrogance, ignorance, and loss of face. Nothing learned from historical examples. Stupidly, greed, mankind’s burden. Maybe we are a failed species?

[Hopkirk]

He won't back down. Not his nature.

[anneasquith]

No. Won’t back down .

[fraser]

IAM more concered about the continued invasion of Britain IAM sad about Ukraine but there hundreds of young fighting men coming into country and the government do nothing about it!! Look after our people first.

[brian j john]

Putin
and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?

[Peter Pedant]

an uneasy peace with Russia annexing E Ukraine.

they were plantations put in by Stalin exactly for this - the Northern republics returned them to Russia - Ukraine didnt ( stalinist dictator)

[Peter Pedant]

How many deaths
well if Putin likes Stalin

one death is a tragedy - a million is a statistic

[jourdain2]

Not any more. In December we warned family (eldest sprog is in finance) that we were certain that Putin would invade Ukraine before Feb. was out. That was a confirmed probability given the build-up and surrounding happenings and we were both happy to stand by it. Now, however, there are so many, many variables that anything could be the outcome. You can extrapolate 'good' outcomes and 'world ending' outcomes.

Far too many players now - anything would be a best guess.

[tomus42]

No-one knows, but my guess and hope is that Putin has miscalculated badly and it will lead to his personal downfall.

[goodlife]

What you going to do here? For those children that are killed. All the women are raped. All the people that are killed. But I know. But I wouldn't discuss it with you.