Provided Ukraine survives with most of its land and energy resources in tack, Russia has ensured that it will be many decades for any sort of neutrality to exist. One doesn't attack another country, bomb their cities, rape their women and torture prisoners of war, then go, "hey, let's just get along and you be neutral now ok?".
It's a fantasy. The likely outcome of this Putin mis-adventure is after many more deaths, a cease fire is agreed to. Followed by talks and negotiations, followed by mistrust for decades, unless Russia tosses out those like Putin and actually demonstrates it wants to build a society that values human life.
Although the cheering crowds chanting Russia, Russia, Russia with Putin do exist, when more of their sons arrive home in body bags, Putin will lose lose his grip on power.
It takes a lot of energy and military firepower to enslave 40 million people and convince them not to fight ever again. They succeeded in the days of the Soviet empire, but Ukraine, like many other former Soviet republics has tasted freedom. Although Putin dreams it daily, there is no going back to the old Soviet days of control, fences and killing with guns to lock people in.
We should never have agreed for Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons. Big strategic mistake. If they had them, Putin and his moronic Chechnya nuclear saber rattlers, would be a lot more humble and quiet about threatening to launch their arsenal.
It's difficult for me to believe there are intelligent people who defend the actions of Russia, defend threatening the use of nuclear weapons, all because they are losing the war that they started.
That's life for Putin the coward who sends 18 year old healthy men to die for his stupid control of energy resources. Now, his stupidity has turned to insanity, in a last ditch effort to not lose face.
For one person, or a small group of Kremlin idiot ego's, it's a sad reason for so many young men, women and children to die. |
