No one is going to change any one’s mind. You are what you read and want to believe.
How about we keep it very simple? He said, she said, he did, he didn’t- not.
Please state your forecast on who wins the war. I am on the record, from Day 1 Vlad wins. ( he keeps the ethnic Russian Provinces and boots out NATO, I am not to sure about de- nazification, the Nazis are to entrenched in the government.)
That was a very rational post. I’d be happy to abide this but I’m afraid your cohort Bimboeruption will not.
As to my forecast on who wins the war? Germany and France will use the war to leverage the EU into becoming a transnational federal state. China will let Russia waste away and then at the most opportune moment they will seize Siberia. They have made both subtle and overt moves in this direction.
At this point the EU cannot abide a Russian conquest of Ukraine and they’re dithering about how far they’re willing to go to stymie Putin’s imperial delusions.
In any case, Russia will not win.
Ukraine won’t win either. Even if Russia departs the war and resumes their 1991 borders the Ukrainian people have been damaged for generations to come.