“What is the Russian goal now? Take over the whole country? Just part of it? Keep them out of NATO?”
They’ve been quite clear. They will complete the liberation and incorporation of the Russian speaking areas of what was once Ukraine, and then they will set up a buffer zone to keep Russia safe from Neocon missiles.
One problem they have is the longer and longer range missiles that the Neocons send them. If they keep doing this, then there cannot be any more Ukraine and it will be divided up among the neighboring countries.
It didn’t have to end this way, but the Neocons didn’t seem able to actually TALK with the Russians about their concerns, so now the time for talk has ended, at least as far as Russia is concerned.
Russian speaking ≠ ethnic Russian. Only Crimea has a Russian ethnic majority. Donbas is majority ethnic Ukrainian; Kherson and Zapporizhzhi by an overwhelming majority
So... who in Russia do you an I support?
The “deplorable” Trump-equivalent russian citizens who supports Navalny, freedom and the end of the Kremlin warmongering?
Or do we prefer Putin’s deep-state establishment pushing for endless forever wars?
Evidently I support the “deplorables”.
And you?