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“Soon, there may be no one left even to use the weapons they give us,” said the volunteer, Yevhen Tuzov, “because all our Western partners want is for us to fight until the last Ukrainian.” (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I imagine it would depend how much of west Ukraine we're talking about. It would do immense economic damage to Poland and likely create a lot of internal tensions. So, it would be destabilizing in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

giving it to poland is basically giving the US free reign to fill it with military bases tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

That's true, but if it's just territory around Lvov, then it might not make much of a difference strategically. I do agree that Russia would likely prefer to just keep it as an independent demilitarized state instead though.