One year in, surely Russia is looking to exit this conflict?
Seems easier to take ground than to hold ground….
It bothers me that diplomacy has been taken off the table in the Ukraine v Russia conflict.
I also hope that Germany holds firm and doesn’t send their leopard tanks. Germany are already responsible for more dead Russians than anyone else.
Nearly a year of fighting, and for what? Effectively cleaned out stockpiles of old ammunition, old military equipment and the weapons manufacturers across the globe are just ramping up to replace with new gear.
It just seems so pointless.
In order for Russia to negotiate a peace, it would need to withdraw. Why would Ukraine negotiate and give Russia breathing room to consolidate control over territory it has stolen? There’s no reason for Ukraine to negotiate. This isn’t a meeting engagement in a territorial vacuum. Russia already broke the Budapest memorandum and the Minsk agreement, they cannot be trusted. So how do you negotiate with a pathological liar?
The current German state is not the same country as Nazi Germany.
Yeah, seems like the Russian invasion really was a total disaster, they should probably leave.
This is in effect making NATO stronger. Arms manufacturers get to see how current kit performs, and they get to release upgrades and new iterations, and test those. Russia should probably leave before it gets worse and not invade anyone else.
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100% agree Russia needs to leave, but how? Is it really going to be a case where the only acceptable outcome is total return of land to Ukraine, including Crimea?
I don’t know the answer to the question, but I wonder if the people of Crimea would prefer to return to being the Republic of Crimea, that they had for a very short time, and let them self govern?
I think anything less than the return of all Ukrainian territory would be a capitulation to terrorism. The whole point of Russia’s strategy of targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure has been to make requiring a vindication of their rights to be worth abandoning to prevent the suffering and murder of civilians via continued Russian war crimes.
It might be worth it. Sometimes war crimes work. But the long-term ramifications of negotiating with terrorists are not only terrifying, but global.
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