Putin doesn’t care!
The conflict would end if Putin would just stop the Russian Invasion. But, his legacy as Ivan the Terrible2 would be lost.
Inform for comparison with Putin:
“Ivan was the son of Vasili III, the Rurikid ruler of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. He was appointed grand prince after his father’s death, when he was three years old.
A group of reformers known as the “Chosen Council” united around the young Ivan, declaring him tsar (emperor) of all Rus’ in 1547 at the age of 16 and establishing the Tsardom of Russia with Moscow as the predominant state.
Ivan’s reign was characterised by Russia’s transformation from a medieval state to an empire under the tsar but at an IMMENSE COST to its people and its broader, long-term economy.
During his youth, he conquered the khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan. AFTER he had consolidated his power, Ivan rid himself of the advisers from the “Chosen Council” and triggered the Livonian War, which RAVAGED Russia and resulted in the loss of Livonia and Ingria but allowed him to establish GREATER AUTOCRATIC CONTROL over Russia’s nobility, which he violently purged with the Oprichnina. The later years of Ivan’s reign were marked by the Massacre of Novgorod and the burning of Moscow by Tatars.
Contemporary sources present disparate accounts of Ivan’s complex personality. He was described by some as intelligent and devout, but also prone to paranoia, rage, and episodic outbreaks of mental instability that increased with age.
In one fit of anger, he murdered his eldest son and heir, Ivan Ivanovich, and he might also have caused the miscarriage of the latter’s unborn child. This left his younger son, the politically ineffectual Feodor Ivanovich, to inherit the throne, a man whose rule and subsequent childless death led directly to the end of the Rurikid dynasty and the beginning of the Time of Troubles.” WIKI
VIDEOS
1. Putin fails as his offensive is ‘chewed up’ by Ukraine
Times Radio
312K subscribers
Mar 29, 2023 3:00 p.m. DST
“The Russians are still on the offensive. They can still be chewed up, and at the time in place of the Ukrainians choosing, they can go on the offensive.”
Putin’s failure in Bakhmut has ruined Russia’s defensive capabilities, Chip Chapman tells”
2. Ukrainian military downs Russian bomber near Bakhmut
The New Voice of Ukraine
Wed, March 29, 2023 at 5:48 AM DST
https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukrainian-military-downs-russian-bomber-near-bakhmut-50314068.html
“The remains of a destroyed Russian bomber”
The defenders shot down the enemy aircraft near the embattled Ukrainian-held town of Bakhmut around 1.30 a.m.
Ukrainian forces have now shot down a total of 306 Russian warplanes and 291 helicopters since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, according to the latest figures from the Ukrainian military’s General Staff.