The High Price of Losing Ukraine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The 2022 invasion has taken anti-American narratives in Russia to new heights.
57% : Putin will go after NATO's cohesion with new force, as in this scenario Russia will have an expanded military footprint on NATO's border and an increased ability to target societal and political cohesion within the alliance.
55% : The Kremlin has accelerated its militarization of Russian society by instituting mandatory patriotic and military education in Russian schools, among other measures, as it seeks to expand Russia's future recruitment base via the indoctrination of its population.
53% : (For similar reasons Putin has been obsessed with increasing the birth rate among Slavic Russians, russification of non-ethnic Russians, and deporting and reeducating Ukrainian children in Russia.)
51% : The Kremlin is using its information-based warfare together with military operations to persuade the United States to choose inaction in Ukraine.
50% : That efficacy, therefore, is not at all independent of the demonstrated willingness of the United States and other NATO states to stand by commitments to non-NATO states.
46% : Anti-Western rhetoric in Russia comes in many forms: from the Kremlin talking heads discussing a potential nuclear strike on the US; to Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev's insinuations about a civil war in the US; to constant explicit and thinly veiled threats against NATO states, including Russian propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov's statements that one "Sarmat" [nuclear] missile is enough to drown the United Kingdom; to falsely blaming the United States for the Kremlin's failures, and even implying that the United States supports terrorism in Russia.
45% : The US Department of Defense (DoD) defines a center of gravity as a source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act.

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