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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    But that’s just it, they don’t know. And no, being sold into honest to God chattel slavery is never preferable to fleeing a war zone -at least in the former you can run away.
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    It’s not even that they’re choosing to do it…it’s that they’re being *coerced* by people claiming to be helping to aid refugees who turn out to be selling them -and in some cases their children- for sex. Otherwise known as “human trafficking” and “sexual slavery.”
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    If Russia actually loses I'd expect someone behind the scenes would forcibly "retire" Putin. The new leader could then use Putin as a scapegoat, pull back, and negotiate for lifting of (at least some) sanctions, since they were implemented in response to the actual invasion. If Putin persists...
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    Armchair General's DonbAss Derailed Discussion Thread (Topics Include History, Traps, and the Ongoing Slavic Civil War plus much much more)

    You're correct in that that may be the literal definition, but from a practical standpoint even a BTG or two doing that counts as executing a deep battle maneuver. Arguing that it only counts if it's a corps-level formation is basically splitting hairs.
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