Tit for Tat Strategy Confirmed

So, it appears that Russia has in fact chosen a tit for tat strategy against Ukraine this year, as I predicted back in May. Russia has achieved its military goals and is therefore in no rush to continue expanding westwards. However, any aggression from the Ukrainian side has been met with immediate and swift responses that add up to more harm than whatever Ukrainian forces manage to inflict on the Russians.

We have seen this pan out several times this summer. Whenever there's a strike inside Russia, there's retaliation in the form of heavy bombardments. This, it appears, has also extended into territories gained by the Ukrainians during their summer offensive. Whenever Ukraine has managed to eek out some territorial gain along the front line, the Russians have responded by grabbing a little more from the Ukrainian side. The Ukrainian summer offensive has in this way ended up with a small net loss of territory.

Vladimir Putin

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