[GK3]

Goose, I know you're all-in on Ukraine trying to retake the South and threaten Crimea.  How would your endgame look?  Russia cedes all of Kherson and Crimea to Ukraine, but keeps the Donbas?  In the map you've created, how would Ukraine hold Crimea in the long term without facing the same vulnerabilities with supply lines that Russia would face absent the Kerch Bridge?  Would Ukraine be substantially more secure if it also held Melitolpol and/or the entire left bank of the Dnipro including the NPP?  Wouldn't Ukraine still be in grave danger as long as Putin, or a similar successor, remains in power in Russia?

Here are some articles from the last year or so discussing this issue directly.

https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/ukraines-co...ake-crimea
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...e-00083857
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/202...ht-be.html
This link which is in one of the above articles is also well worth a read and some thought
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...y-00083683

[GK3]

Goose, I know you're all-in on Ukraine trying to retake the South and threaten Crimea.  How would your endgame look?  Russia cedes all of Kherson and Crimea to Ukraine, but keeps the Donbas?  In the map you've created, how would Ukraine hold Crimea in the long term without facing the same vulnerabilities with supply lines that Russia would face absent the Kerch Bridge?  Would Ukraine be substantially more secure if it also held Melitolpol and/or the entire left bank of the Dnipro including the NPP?  Wouldn't Ukraine still be in grave danger as long as Putin, or a similar successor, remains in power in Russia?

Here are some articles from the last year or so discussing this issue directly.

https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/ukraines-co...ake-crimea
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...e-00083857
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/202...ht-be.html
This link which is in one of the above articles is also well worth a read and some thought
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...y-00083683