His aim will be to unseat the present Ukraine government and install a pro-Russian government more-or-less immune to popular opinion. He will help it set up an effective secret police, purge or kill the most effective anti-Russian voices, and leave, claiming “job done.”
We know this Russian game plan. It’s what Stalin did in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Baltics at the end of World War II. Stalin’s “fig leaf” of international communism is all that will be missing.
