[MuttTheHoople]

I will be honest with all of you- I have absolutely NO IDEA what's going on in this war. On one hand, I hear that the Ukrainians have driven the Russkies out. On the other hand, I hear the Russkies have consolidated their position, and are fully controlling Eastern Ukraine.

I'm suspicious of both sides. Putin is an old-school Soviet apparatchik. Some try to make him the next Hitler....I think he's the next Mussolini, in that he's trying to bring back a long-dead empire. Like Mussolini's Italian troops, today's Russians have no stomach for it.

Zelensky is just as bad. They're trying to make him the next Churchill. I tend to agree, if you remember that Churchill also devised the Gallipoli invasion, re-drew the Middle East on a napkin, and was brutal towards Indian Independence.

Until someone can convince me differently, my philosophy is "Not my circus, not my monkeys".

[RedMonqey]

I agree with you. It’s the Europeans problem child.

[jospehm20]

Exactly my take on this mess.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I will be honest with all of you- I have absolutely NO IDEA what's going on in this war.

See here for the current SITREP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x05pMk0hzO8

Basically, a World War I type situation has developed in eastern Ukraine. Both sides are pounding each other along a static line that's barely changed in the past month. The war has been very intense and everyone is physically exhausted.

If a new Ukraine-Russia border is established at the current FLOT (forward line of troops), I think this is a result both sides can live with. Russia completes their land bridge to the Black Sea and repatriates a majority of the Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine. Ukraine maintains most of its territorial integrity while still having access to the Black Sea at Odessa.

However, I think the Russians will continue to fight. They would like the new border to be further west and right now, there is probably a better chance the Ukrainian defense collapses before the Russian offensive does, though this is debatable.

[Pollard]

I will be honest with all of you- I have absolutely NO IDEA what's going on in this war.

That's because there are two distinct opposite truths being reported.