STRATEGIC AND GEOPOLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF PUTIN’S WAR

If Putin were to succeed in gaining full control of Ukraine, there would be significant strategic and geopolitical consequences. The first would be a new front line of conflict in Central Europe. Russian forces would be able to station forces — land, air and missile — in bases in western Ukraine as well as Belarus. Russian forces would thus be arrayed along Poland’s entire 650-mile eastern border, as well as along the eastern borders of Slovakia and Hungary and the northern border of Romania.