Declan.
I'm actually quite sympathic to the ordinary Russian.
You have to be when reading about the cost and sacrifices made on the Eastern front in WW2, the Great Patriotic War.
But the current Russian generation and future generations are seeing their wealth and future sold and stolen.
Even if Russia takes all of Ukraine, they will be left with a wasteland. All Ukrainians will try to escape. And Russia will have spent everything and Putin will die anyway.
This has never been about Ukraine for me as it is about Russia. They are killing themselves and expending everything they have, for one man's awful vision that can't help them.
The fact is, Putin should have won by now. Putin needed to have won by now.
He hasn't. And now no matter what he does, Russia is doomed.
You're reduced to celebrating villages being taken from the poorest country in Europe, aided with expired Western kit that already replaced by those countries, at vast cost in Russian lives. It should have ended 2 years ago. You don't see how Russia is dying by fighting a war that is Pyrrhic.
What Russia needs, always needed is more babies. For families to have hope. And that won't happen unless the wealth is given to them.
When Fishalt is removed from mod duties, or Wolf stops spamming, Ill post again.
Two impossible things