Russias conquered landmass is surrounded by suppressed ethnicities with an axe to grind. You do not get to have a moment of weakness in that region.
You have a moment of weakness and then the aserbeidschanis, the turks, the chechyans and the chinese jump you and turn the yalu river red. Russias benefit was the tech transfer from europe to always stay ahead of the competition. They can not have a peaceful europe.
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Ukraine is an independent nation
if the EU wants to bankroll and arm Ukraine, and Ukraine wants to go on fighting, then by all means proceed
the outcome will be the same, just with more death and destruction
look at maps - Ukraine is not winning
Russia is not winning either but they also aren't losing
Russias conquered landmass is surrounded by suppressed ethnicities with an axe to grind. You do not get to have a moment of weakness in that region. You have a moment of weakness and then the aserbeidschanis, the turks, the chechyans and the chinese jump you and turn the yalu river red. Russias benefit was the tech transfer from europe to always stay ahead of the competition. They can not have a peaceful europe.
Russia's economy is doing very badly and with time they'll lose as long as west continues to support Ukraine.
Stalin killed 4 millions Ukrainians. They are still angry and worried for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor