Russians being Russians and Putin

Over at Counterfact's Facebook page, an interesting analysis of Russian military intentions:


Putin can choose to chip away at Ukraine one bit at a time, as he’s been doing. A faction within the army leadership, however, would reportedly prefer to demonstrate to the West their newly reforming Russian Army in a full-on invasion of at least the eastern part of the country. There’s thus some institutional pressure on the dictator to go all out and seize what he can as quickly as possible, before NATO can gather the political will and military wherewithal to intervene and before Ukraine can form its own solid line of resistance.

Read the whole thing.