Oh, he won't. He's trying to recreate the old Russian Empire. Just as the roots of the Syrian conflict stem from the Ottoman Empire, Putain's zeal harks back to the days of Peter the Great. He's been playing a very long game, and the West has been appeasing him, denigrating NATO etc - to everyone's detriment.This is how I feel. I know the devastation it would cause but it feels so wrong just leaving them to after they contuine to ask us for help i don't think putin will stop after Ukraine either
That won't stop Vlad. I predict that he'll invade Moldova next. The parallels with 1936-9 and the present are undeniable. The League of Nations waffled about non-agression pacts and policies, allowed Hitler to walk all over the Sudetenland and annexe Austria without a whimper, and look what happened next.So Russia are mad because Ukraine might join NATO in future. Representative from China speaking on BBC news right now thinks that is the key issue. I wish Ukraine would say Ok we promise not to join NATO just to get a ceasefire in place and do whatever it wants in future. I'm sure that would start war back up again but at least Ukraine/NATO could prepare a bit more.
Why should they give up an inch of their territory to a creature who wants to obliterate them from the face of the earth?Cannot find it but a military analyst said this morning that one solution is for Ukraine to concede a small area of land that Russia wants on their joint border - that way Russia will not lose face and UKR will keep the majority of its land - unsure how much land would need to be given over but at this point in time I would go for that and let everything go back to, an uneasy, cease fire Not ideal I know but it could stop it quickly and I am no expert but could it be this simple in order to resolve without any more deaths
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