Just my opinion, Russia will face never ending guerrilla warfare in Ukraine.

[fightforfreedom]

He will need hundreds of thousands of troops permanently stationed throughout Ukraine and along the southern border of Ukraine in the hope of controlling Ukraine.

He will have to try and stop the arms flow pouring across the southern border which will arm the resistance fighters who will never give up. That's a long border he will have to protect.

We all know what happens when a country takes over another country where the people hate you.

[gab13by13]

1. It's not just your opinion,

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson said the same thing last night.

Arms can also flow in through Poland.

Yes, to annex Ukraine, Putin will have to keep his army in Ukraine.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. It would be a poetic outcome if Russia cedes Crimea to Ukraine.

That would annoy Putin

[madaboutharry]

3. The Ukrainian people will never submit to Russian tyranny.

Ukraine has had a taste of freedom. It may not be the embodiment of Jeffersonian Democracy, but they have a democratically elected government and the freedom of self. Putim may try mightily, but he will never create a nation of sheep in Ukraine.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. We learned that lesson from Vietnam and elsewhere.

Wars today are fought differently. Technology saw to that.

I am reminded of the scene in the film AVATAR where the huge planes with all their firepower could not overtake the tribes of Pandora. I know it is just a film from 2009, but there is a relevance here of that film and the Russians in Ukraine. It will likely be the Russians losing badly.

[Ohiya]

5. I think the guerrilla warfare will die,

when Putin does. Hopefully, in the near future.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Consistent With My Premise...

...that they need to occupy & they don't have the economic resources to sustain it.
Perhaps Putin & his cronies overestimated their own military might & thought they'd just roll over the Ukrainians.
I think they've already gotten their noses bloodied more than they expected.

[The Jungle 1]

7. Russia tried to control Poland.

They lost.
There are a lot of russian loyalist in Ukraine. But I don't think there are enough.
Guerrilla warfare is how you defeat a large army.

[JanMichael]

8. Being a fairly well developed country I am not so sure.

The comfort level goes from high on the Human Existence scale with tablets, bars, restaurants, theater, parks, and daily showers and intact windows, to sleeping in ditches, freezing in the winter, and setting off IEDs, getting eaten alive by bugs in the summer, and getting shot at.

Electricity gets spotty, clean water goes bye bye, fuel is spotty.

Less that 6 months in my estimation.