[Rockingham]

No, the immediate effect of an imminent Ukrainian military collapse would be Polish intervention to limit the Russian advance, an eventuality long foreseen as possible by Poland's military planners. For all the caterwauling about the Russian invasion of Ukraine being a "border conflict" and "don't poke the bear," for NATO allies Poland and the Baltic Republics, Russian control of Ukraine would be a major threat to their security that has to be averted if at all possible.

[struggle]

>Russian control of Ukraine would be a major threat to their security that has to be averted if at all possible.

I don’t see Russia or Poland crossing the Dnieper. I’m guessing that Russia takes the east side and Poland takes the west as a protectorate, while Russia demands no missiles or other materiel of war be placed on the west side of Ukraine.