You get the impression from news reports that 20,000 Russian soldiers have died, but only about 200 Ukrainian soldiers.
Fake news is the only good thing Zelensky has these days. He needs to work a peace deal pronto.
Sadly.....this whole military operation could have been avoided had the US not pushed Ukraine into this position.
History will record this was a huge strategic blunder on the part of the deep state.
Unfortunately, I think the deep state has its back to the wall.
I'm afraid America's financial position is such that we need every country available to take on some old-fashioned American debt, even those that might get us into a war.
Sadly.....this whole military operation could have been avoided had the US not pushed Ukraine into this position.
***That’s horse shiite. This war is about OIL & Gas Reserves.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
The Russians weren’t even interested in eastern Ukraine until oil was found there. Their interest is simply in raping that country. Russia gets 60% of its revenues from oil exports. Europe gets 40% of their oil from Russia.
In 2012 massive oil and gas reserves were found in Crimea. Crimea signed a $10 billion exploration contracts with Shell and Chevron to develop the new found oil and gas fields. These oil and gas products would compete in Europe with Russia’s oil and gas, reducing Russia’s oil revenues, which we recall amount to 60% of their total GDP. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, cancelling the contracts with Shell and Chevron.
But Ukraine still had massive reserves in, you guessed it, Donetsk and Luhansk, and other areas East of the Dnieper River. In 2019, Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited Ukraine, and soon after Ukraine awarded exploration contracts to a consortium of U.S. oil companies. Again, these oil reserves would compete in Europe with Russian oil, so Putin is invading Ukraine to shut down this latest attempt to extract Ukrainian oil and sell it in competition with Russian oil.
This explanation makes more sense to me than the “Putin feels threatened by NATO expansion” excuses for the invasion.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044221/posts?page=1#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmdSzVFSKc
If the Ukes allow some small region in the west to be its own republic, but the OIL belongs to Ukraine, do ya think Pootypoot would allow that? Nope.