You are pretty cavalier with giving away another people’s land and condemning half of them to living under the domination of a foreign power. Don’t think that such a Russian victory would end this. If anything, this war has united the Ukrainians in their national identity. After centuries of rule under foreign rulers, they will not submit peacefully again to Russian domination. All Russia would have won would be a continuing bloody insurgency. For their own sake, the Russians need to go home.
the other option would be WWIII, and in my opinion, that is not an option at all.
If anything, this war has united the Ukrainians in their national identity.
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Then why has 16-20 million Ukies fled Ukraine? Records show 3-4 million fled to Russia, the others to the EU. Reading Ukie social postings show very little “ unity”, but want the war ended due to the high casualties.