This would all be over tomorrow if Russia just pulled out and returned home. Russia invaded a sovereign and non-threatening neighbor; if Russia were honorable it would stop this insanity.
But, it can’t, because its paranoid leader would lose face. This is all on Putin, who has repeatedly said over the years that Ukraine is not an independent and sovereign nation, and never has been.
“returned home”
Many ethnic Russians have long lived in the areas in dispute.
Around 1790 Russia seized many of the areas off Turkey. Turkey got some of the areas after the Byzantine Empire fell.
Poland did not free the areas from the Turks, but was whittled down by Russia.
Americans lived in Texas for just about a decade before the Alamo incident. The US government had the right to protect Americans in the new Republic of Texas.
Pay attention. The Russian Federation by an overwhelming majority voted for this military action.
80 percent support Putin. The country will not back down....if Zelensky were honorable he be at the table but he is a pawn.
The Ukrainian government was not able to protect ethnic Russians from what Russia calls neo-Nazis.
Ethnic Russians in Ukraine were faced with much like blacks did with the KKK.
Unlike southern blacks, the ethnic Russians forcibly rebelled.
That is my understanding.
Exactly.
Anyone suggesting that the correct end is anything other than Russia getting the hell out is not better than someone openly supporting Stalin in the late 1940s or early 1950s, or making excuses for Mao in the 1960s