This is obviously true, and the people calling for Ukraine to give up territory in order to "save lives" are really just calling for Ukraine to invite a further attack. And of course, they know this. https://t.co/o2sxFzrZ9L

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) April 7, 2022

I think so too. I was wrong about this in the beginning in an important way. I thought it had something to do with NATO expansion and it mostly doesn’t; Putin wants an empire again. The Baltic states would’ve been next up.