[zilean]

You cant just occupy country w/o sanctions, export/import chains breaking, you need to rebuild what would be inevitably destroyed during the invasion, etc.

[mzs]

Ukraine shows how much can be tolerated.

[zilean]

Well, Russian economy is still in recession. And Russian forces tecchnically never fired a gun in Ukraine or Crimea.

[Steko]

Russian forces have fired many guns in Ukraine, full stop.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a419b994ccf14a42977665a9af966...