Precisely why we need to stay the hell out of it. They probably would have negotiated a peaceful solution by now, if outsiders didn't get involved.
Exactly.
Precisely why we need to stay the hell out of it. They probably would have negotiated a peaceful solution by now, if outsiders didn’t get involved.
Putin wants to erase Ukraine and and recreate the Russian empire. He and his surrogates (Russian state TV, etc.) has said so plainly many times. How do you negotiate from that starting point? You can’t. Russian irredentism must be defeated due to its violent nature and Anti Americanism. The longer we take to do that the more people will die needlessly.