"Russia is playing the long game, West can't focus for more than 5 mins."
Coming up on 3 years (not 5 minutes), with more substantial military aid packages donated which include ever more advanced weaponry.
More dead and permanently injured Russians by the day (the costs to the Russian medical system alone would be staggering) with a population that doesn't have a never ending appetite for the return of russian boys in coffins from outside its borders.
Perhaps you think Russian families celebrate the martyrdom of their children to Poots vanity project?
Maybe, but we will never know whilst Poots brutally suppresses any dissent in Russia.
Kerch bridge is both symbolic and very important to Russian operations in Crimea.
If it goes, the blow to the want a be Czar's street creds, will be brutal (how will he be able look XI and the little rocket man in the eyes even with pumps).
BTW, it not just the train lines that are vulnerable, its also them choo choo's that are on top of them.
