Originally Posted by tdoyka
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates

Nicole Wolkov, Christina Harward, Riley Bailey, Karolina Hird, and Frederick W. Kagan

March 20, 2024

Several Russian financial, economic, and military indicators suggest that Russia is preparing for a large-scale conventional conflict with NATO, not imminently but likely on a shorter timeline than what some Western analysts have initially posited.
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That proves what Hicountry posted.

Politics is War by Other Means