US-Ukrainian Drone Campaign Targeting Crimea

▪️US directed drone strikes on Russia include specifically a campaign targeting Crimea including logistics to the peninsula – highways, ferries, and bridges, but also fuel storage and transport;

▪️This has triggered a fuel crisis for the civilian population but will have no direct impact on Russian military operations along the line of contact;

▪️The primary purpose of punishing the civilian population of Crimea is to force Russia to divert military resources there to alleviate the crisis and thus spread Russian forces thin elsewhere;

▪️No matter how bad the crisis becomes for civilians in Crimea, Ukraine lacks the manpower to actually take any of the territory it is attacking;

▪️In addition to diverting resources to Crimea, the campaign feeds into the larger propaganda campaign US-enabled/directed drone strikes across all of Russia are committed to;

▪️In all, it may slow Russian forces down and raise the cost further for Russia regarding the entire war, but it will not change the ultimate outcome at this point;

▪️It should be remembered that proxy war with Russia in Ukraine was a 2019 RAND Corporation “Extending Russia” policy option designed specifically to create tremendous costs for Russia, not necessarily defeat Russia;

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