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Russia wanted to conquer Ukraine in just 2 days — it now says the war will last at least 3 years
(www.businessinsider.com)
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For the strategy to be called successful, it needs first to succeed.
even if they had, they had no means of holding it.
If they had enough it's possible that other nations would have not bothered fighting to take it back. That's more or less how they took Crimea in the first place, they were fortifying a position before most countries could react.