miketheterrible wrote:flamming_python wrote:Urluber wrote:Karl Haushofer wrote:How about stopping the invasion and going back to Russia?
Accept defeat and leave.
Better do it now than after three or ten years with thousands of more dead Russians.
It was a terrible idea to invade in the first place.
Come on.
There's no way Russia will loose this. It's just a question of why the deciding characters do not increase the airstrikes, missile strikes, artillery bombardment and so on. Are they really trusting in negotiations or just some strategy we do not understand yet. No one of us knows.
If Russia stopped the operation now it would be a total disaster. Possibly the last one. Then no one would be happy; neither the liberals nor the hardliners. And Russia still being cut off from the western systems. 90s would be nothing in comparison.
It could even lead to disarmament of Russia. Strip it off from nuclear weapons, that is. Of course "voluntarily", the western-installed guy (whoever that would be) in Kremlin would sign it in order to guarantee "the world community" Russia will never ever again threaten the world peace.
That will not happen. Russia has laid the demands on table; disarmament of Kievan forces and denazification. The mission will be fulfilled. Point of turning back has long been crossed.
That's true. No turning back now. Although I do hope somehow, that an agreement can be reached.
But Putin does need to leave after this. And stand trial eventually. Because all this shit is a massive crime, that is going to lead to misery for millions of people. Not by the hands of Russian soldiers - but then it doesn't matter, if it's Russian actions that destabilized the Ukraine to this wild extent.
Sure. Right after Bush, Blair, Harper, Cheney, Merkel, Sarkozy, etc all stand on trial for Afghanistan and Iraq, then we can talk. Otherwise, stop making yourself look fucking stupid. I know you are smarter than this.
Edit: should also mention Clinton and the ilk in Yugoslavia,
Somalia, Libya, Sudan, and the rest of the "uncivilized" world.
I assume you are a racist too right? They don't matter cause they aren't blond hair blue eyed European?
Many Syrians are blond and blue eyed. Yet they were slaughtered all the same.