My guest author predicts an invasion by regular Russian troops near the end of the first week of May, although she dose not rule out, as an alternative, an alliance of Putin with certain Russian politicians and oligarchs. Notably the author makes a persuasive case that the long-term consequences of an invasion of “NewRussia” by regular troops will spell the end of Putin’s Russia as we know it through radical violence, a real civil war in NewRussia, economic collapse from biting sanctions, and flaring unrest in areas of ethnic conflict in Russia itself.