[Chad C. Mulligan]

A Russian steals $100 from you. You confront him about it. He hands back a $20 and says “See, I made a concession”.

Russian ceasefires are merely opportunities to rearm/redeploy.

[Who is John Galt?]

[Rockingham]

Amen.

[Jan_Sobieski]

A Russian steals $100 from you. You confront him about it. He hands back a $20 and says “See, I made a concession”.

Nah…analogy falls short. Here’s a better one...

The neighbors’ houses in the HOA next to you (Russia) are taken over by murderous revolutionaries (Euromaiden Revolution). A couple of the houses that border your property decided to leave the HOA (Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea). The murderous revolutionaries began killing the people of the houses that have left the HOA. You begin protecting the houses who border your land and go after the revolutionaries killing your bordering neighbors