No one thinks Putin does anything out of the goodness of his heart. It is nonetheless beneficial for him to win, both for the people of Donbas and for multipolarity. Beyond that, he will surely give the Azovites a harder time than Zelensky is.
I wish peace talks succeeded too. I don't like the war, I just think one winner is a better outcome than the other, and it's not the one who consistently undermined the peace talks.
There's nothing cowardly about having compassion, the war is a ridiculous waste of human life. I am simply saying that there are ways of rating outcomes beyond the (correctly prioritized) criteria of "is there a war or not?"
Edit: ps it wasn't just a post Soviet issue. Look up Operation Bloodstone
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No one thinks Putin does anything out of the goodness of his heart. It is nonetheless beneficial for him to win, both for the people of Donbas and for multipolarity. Beyond that, he will surely give the Azovites a harder time than Zelensky is.
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I wish peace talks succeeded too. I don't like the war, I just think one winner is a better outcome than the other, and it's not the one who consistently undermined the peace talks.
There's nothing cowardly about having compassion, the war is a ridiculous waste of human life. I am simply saying that there are ways of rating outcomes beyond the (correctly prioritized) criteria of "is there a war or not?"
Edit: ps it wasn't just a post Soviet issue. Look up Operation Bloodstone
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To anyone reading: also check out operation aerodynamic.