Another year of continued useless slaughter would do more than just cause disappointment.
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Russian government really is just a one-man show. Whatever Putin says, goes.
That is not the case with Ukraine. Zelensky can't just capitulate, sign a deal, and the Ukrainians will all clap for him and go along. He actually needs some sort of public consensus, to get constitutional changes through and abdicate territory.
I have never seen anyone point out that the deal has to appeal to the Ukrainian citizenry, but we are all about to find out that they simply aren't interested in giving up territory they tightly hold. They hold the high ground, literally.
Also, as an aside, it's bizarre to me that no one thinks there's any problem with Russia sending a million young men off to fight this war, but it's supposedly really horrible that Ukraine has done so. Are Ukrainian men worth more than Russian men?
I think the consensus is: yes.
I don't agree with this, but I have yet to find a single person who thinks differently...
I never said that. Ukraine could've been saved in 2022 in Turkey and neither Russians or Ukrainians would've died. That's what I mean by that.