[Rockingham]

Not so. Ukraine has substantial industrial and technical talent, and being closer to Western Europe and the US geographically and culturally, Ukraine has better quality of life and prospects for the future than Russia. That was one of the reasons for Putin's invasion. Russians were grumbling that Ukrainians were doing better than they were.

If the current war ends on terms that Ukraine can live with, as with the former Warsaw Pact countries after the Cold War, the EU will pour in money for recovery and provide access to their markets. That will lead to return of the Ukrainian wartime diaspora and rapid growth due to what economists call a "rebuilding boom," the same kind of thing that led to the recovery of Japan, Germany, and South Korea.

[dforest]

What a pantload. Russia is actually geographically closer to the US.

The US is already assigning a bunch of progressives to take over the rebuilding because Western interests such as Blackrock and Vanguard have bought Ukraine from Zelensky.

Talk about imperialism. Talk about NATO expansionism.

[NorseViking]

Every of your points is false.