Here are five reasons an invasion isn’t likely:
that if Russia invaded, “Peoples of the western powers would be forced to abandon the belief that the Russian ‘threat’ to Europe is a figment of the fevered imagination of the paranoid or of the military industrial complex, and accept that Russia has returned to its old habits of being a violent and expansive polity with a wish to move its borders westwards.”
President Biden removed the threat of sanctions against the pipeline in May as a goodwill gesture to Moscow, but he would be forced to revisit that decision if an invasion of Ukraine took place. The Russian economy depends heavily on exports of oil and natural gas that could be severely limited if punitive sanctions were imposed.Russia has reverted to authoritarianism under Putin, but it is still far from being the totalitarian state of its Stalinist past.
Given all the potential drawbacks, a Russian invasion of Ukraine looks both foolish and unlikely. Russian forces currently in position to move against the country are inadequate to seize even the area east of the Dnieper, so unless U.S. intelligence detects a further buildup of troops an invasion is improbable.
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