vladimir putin's planned invasion blitzkrieg style is not going to plan he's already in his
second week and he has not yet achieved all the objectives that he needed to for his military to
consolidate their strong points and secure the strategic areas required for him to occupy that
country what may happen is that these aggressive actions spill over onto the borders of romania
bulgaria and poland nato countries that would drag the united states into it under article 5. if
putin does this and if casualties occur in these countries we could see an escalation to world war
three hello i'm colin heaton the forgotten history special report and today we will be discussing the
options available to vladimir putin following his ongoing attacks and aggression in ukraine
putin's objectives in ukraine are to occupy as many key points in the country build a land bridge
to the crimea that he created when he invaded in 2014 and occupy as much of the natural resources
as possible to bolster russia's own economic superiority over ukraine at the expense of the
ukrainians there has been some criticism that the u.s and nato have not been more actively involved
with regard to ukraine problem the issue is that ukraine is not a nato member article 5 protection
does not fall into the preview of supporting the ukrainians what may happen is that the refugee
problem becomes a crisis what could also happen is that russian forces upon pursuing
ukrainian forces across borders could bring nato and the us into it as a result of article
5 protection for those nations that border ukraine in particular poland where there is no doubt in
putin's mind he would love to reacquire territory lost after the collapse of the soviet union there
are various scenarios that could unfold as a result of this putin has options he can stop
where he is and consolidate his forces and try to negotiate a better deal with ukrainians and the
rest of the world or he could pull out absorb his losses and lose face with his military and his own
people who are already protesting the war into in their majority or he can continue his aggressive
posture and continue killing in ukraine occupying as much territory as possible to reabsorb that
into his former russian empire the other result of that could be a third world war if that hostility
extends beyond the borders of ukraine into nato member states then that would prompt the
article 5 response to support these countries should they fall victim to russian aggression
we don't know what's going to happen we can't we cannot prognosticate as to what will happen
but these are putin's options consolidate his gains or withdraw from the ukraine in general
or keep pursuing his aggressive posture to occupy all of ukraine the best he can despite the
very stringent ukrainian resistance we will keep following this up on forgotten history special
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we will keep giving you updates as we get them i'm colin heaton and thank you for watching
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