Tragic—a victim of war. Putin should pull out and let Ukrain retake the “Rebelious states” or he should invade and make them part of the RF—one or the other. He needs to make a deal with Keiv—or fight a real war. In any case the questions need to be resolved one way or the other.
“He needs to make a deal with Keiv”
A big part of the problem has been the coup government’s refusal to negotiate on anything. They said within hours of the signing of the Euro Accord that they were going to ignore it, they weren’t going to disarm the pro-Kiev militias.
There are forces at work in Kiev that have a big interest in seeing the war continue, and it is being driven by the anti-Russian hard-liners, with the support of the radical thugs.
Look at the fall of the government in Kiev today, driven by Svoboda, that some on FR keep telling us has “no influence, they are a small factor”. They also have the Right-Sector thugs strong-arming for them.
Putin does not care how many he murders. Just look at Syria. Putin has kept that war going and doesn’t care at all about the thousands upons thousands he has murdered.