Yep. The difference between the two maps is using the river as the boundary. Personally, I am watching Odessa. To date, the operations have been classic encirclements in the east. An inflection point is approaching. Either Russia sets up high % ethnicity buffer independent provinces, or they reestablish the Molotov–Ribbentrop Line.
What’s the difference? East of the river are oil and gas fields. West of the river (MR line) includes the Eurasian breadbasket. Agrarian. Large areas captured easily. Research Russian ethnicity maps, sunflowers.
If I was a mad despot in charge of the operation, I would try this :
Offer Poland Lvov (basically as per the map)
Carve off a bit for Hungary / Romania
Give Koenigsberg back to Germany
.. on the condition that Poland / Hungary / Romania / Germany sign on to join some Pan-Eurasian Co-Prospertity Sphere and Mutual Defence type of thing, and get a discount on their energy bills.
Yep. The difference between the two maps is using the river as the boundary. Personally, I am watching Odessa. To date, the operations have been classic encirclements in the east. An inflection point is approaching. Either Russia sets up high % ethnicity buffer independent provinces, or they reestablish the Molotov–Ribbentrop Line.
What’s the difference? East of the river are oil and gas fields. West of the river (MR line) includes the Eurasian breadbasket. Agrarian. Large areas captured easily. Research Russian ethnicity maps, sunflowers.
Watch Odessa.
Well much of Western Ukraine was stolen from Poland by the Nazis and they never got it back.
If I was a mad despot in charge of the operation, I would try this :
.. on the condition that Poland / Hungary / Romania / Germany sign on to join some Pan-Eurasian Co-Prospertity Sphere and Mutual Defence type of thing, and get a discount on their energy bills.
with Spicy Ukrainian Sauce
https://golospravdy.eu/smi-polyaki-sobirayutsya-delit-ukrainu/
Photo with the 3 guys, map on the wall. Is that Alaska??
No, the red part is the Poland- partitioned area in the West of Ukraine.
For reference - see this partition map from WW2 that shows where the division of land goes from the "Ribbentrop - Molotov" pact 1939
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Poland1937linguistic.jpg
No, surrounded by land, the water is to the right.