Since Russia is the winner of the war it gets to dictate the terms.
Absolutely...To the winner goes the spoils...since the beginning of time.
“Since Russia is the winner of the war it gets to dictate the terms.”
At the end of WWI there were no troops on German territory. They sued for peace because their economy had collapsed. There’s no way Russia has “won.” They’ve lost somewhere in the neighborhood of one percent of their male population. The unemployment rate is at a disastrous 2 percent. They have lost the trust of the entire Western world, their best customer. They may be sitting on some Ukrainian territory. But they have “lost” in so many ways and those ways will continue to count, and hurt, for the next generation.
Because the culture and economy will be so bad for the next twenty years, they will face an epic brain drain. It’s hard to generate any metric that says, Hey, we won.