I just showed you the demographics, of Ukraine, in 2023 for a deep dent in the population of those of military age and it’s been two years since, so it is even more dented. You deny the evidence before your eyes because Russkies are being killed.
To you, the death spiral of the Ukraine does not matter to you, as long as Russkies are killed. Even if this means that Ukrainians age out and die out after the war.
That is reprehensible. It was never a winnable war and Putin could have been talked to before the war to limit his mandate in what he wanted. But no, killing Russkies was more important to you.
Thank you for admitting the genocidal nature of Moscow’s latest colonialist war of choice.
The rest of your analysis, is course, totally wrong. Putin himself himself has said Ukraine is really part of Russia and Ukrainians are Russians. There was never anything to negotiage here. Russia’s neighbors are either nations and cultures separate from the filth of Russkiy Mir or they are not. There is no door number 3 here. American conservatives have a choice: support Ukrainians desire to have their own borders, langauge and culture or not. Again, no door number 3. You have a border and your own language or you don’t.
It’s easiest just read Putin’s own words on the topic:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181
Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“
July 12, 202117:00
During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people – a single whole. These words were not driven by some short-term considerations or prompted by the current political context. It is what I have said on numerous occasions and what I firmly believe. I therefore feel it necessary to explain my position in detail and share my assessments of today’s situation.
First of all, I would like to emphasize that the wall that has emerged in recent years between Russia and Ukraine, between the parts of what is essentially the same historical and spiritual space, to my mind is our great common misfortune and tragedy. These are, first and foremost, the consequences of our own mistakes made at different periods of time. But these are also the result of deliberate efforts by those forces that have always sought to undermine our unity. The formula they apply has been known from time immemorial – divide and rule. There is nothing new here. Hence the attempts to play on the ”national question“ and sow discord among people, the overarching goal being to divide and then to pit the parts of a single people against one another.....
It is Zelenskyy who is fighting the war to the last Ukranian. It is Zelenskyy who will be sending 12 year old children to die. It is Zelenskyy who is applying the Hitler strategy in this war.
The war didn’t have to happen. But we wanted it to happen. You wanted this war to happen, because it means killing Russkies.
Putin is getting what he wants, the part of the Ukraine that is populated by Russian ethnics, because Zelenskyy was in the process of wiping them out before the war.
Since Putin getting what he wants was inevitable, it could have been avoided entirely by simply talking to him.