I doubt Russia would take all of Ukraine as well. Western Ukraine has very little value for Russia because most of the industry and agricultural land is in the east. What’s most likely is that Russia will leave a rump western Ukraine which the west is going to have to keep pouring money into in order for it not to collapse and result in a massive refugee crisis in Europe.
Not to mention (as has been discussed in other threads here) Galicia-Volhynia at least, is the heartland of Banderism and general ultra-nationalist sentiment. It wouldn’t just be a bad idea to try and hold it from an economic point of view, but in terms of the local sentiment there being nothing but russophobia+nazi worship.
I doubt Russia would take all of Ukraine as well. Western Ukraine has very little value for Russia because most of the industry and agricultural land is in the east. What’s most likely is that Russia will leave a rump western Ukraine which the west is going to have to keep pouring money into in order for it not to collapse and result in a massive refugee crisis in Europe.
Not to mention (as has been discussed in other threads here) Galicia-Volhynia at least, is the heartland of Banderism and general ultra-nationalist sentiment. It wouldn’t just be a bad idea to try and hold it from an economic point of view, but in terms of the local sentiment there being nothing but russophobia+nazi worship.
Exactly, much better to offload that nightmare onto the Poles.