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exactly... all more the reason for Ukraine to continue counter offensives

when Ukraine have their land back, it will meet that Russian dialogue of "Ukraine don't want to meet us at the peace table for some reason"

Hopefully when this war is over and Ukraine has their land and country back. That this blond rashist gets her own medicine given back to her and booted back to Russia. THUGS.

Diplomatic intervention has to happen. If the right people were involved, a ceasefire agreed and negotiations took place to find a roadmap towards a desired outcome I think a peaceful outcome could be found.

Things are probably too hot at the moment and it might need a change of personalities for it to happen but continued slaughter on both sides is not going to end this. It will likely require require a ‘nuclear’ event, excuse the phrase, such as the death of one of the presidents to force things to move into the diplomatic stage. In the short term the fighting is not likely to end but championing death and slaughter is just contributing to the delay in reaching a conflict ending solution in my view

I'm not a fan of diplomacy, but once ukraine has driven the Orc filth from all their lands, including of course Crimea, well then The Orcs can beg for mercy and the diplomats can talk terms.

It's the Russian psyche to get pleasure from others pain. When you think of it that way it explains lots from the imperialism, the conquest of smaller nations, the boarish behaviour of expats abroad. Any of this cannot be done by one man.

A couple of things could trigger it, Ukrainian accession to the EU (unlikely), a change in US president next year, a shift in support away from Russia from its few remaining allies. A Ukrainian offensive could be another catalyst but it could also escalate matters if Russia or its allies respond with greater force.

How do you see things playing out?

Absolutely we will be rejoicing,

Remember in Russia where they have relatives in Ukraine they celebrate the mass slaughter of Ukrainans,they celebrate whenever Russian media shows the latest missle strikes on ukraine.

Not only will we be rejoicing,the whole of Ukraine will be rejoicing, Poland, Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia,lativa Finland, Sweden and any other countries who have had to live under the spectre of a Russian attack or invasion of their sovereign territories

I posted a drone flight showing the destruction of poor Marinka, after seeing Ukrainians use tears emojis when it's mentioned and researching to find out why.

And fighting is still ongoing there, I believe.

How many rounds does it take to manage to hit every tree and bush and to eradicate everything green?

NATO supreme commander U.S. Army General Christopher Cavoli ,has claimed Russian losses are at 200,000 + men ....

We've not seen losses like that since the Korean war ,

Given a choice in the matter, no normal person would like to kill or be killed or have relatives killed. But when you have a monster who creates a situation that puts people in a situation where it's kill or be killed. You have the attackers and the defenders. But in this case, these particular attackers are the most vile and inhuman as the world has ever seen. They leave a trail of depravity and destruction behind them, that brings a hatred of them from everyone, not only the relatives of the murdered, but everyone. And all who wear the same uniform get tarred with the same brush. It will take generations if ever, to forgive them, and when these murderers are destroyed, its not a cause for regret, but for rejoicing. Their inhumanity has has caused people to see them as less than human. Instead of blaming Ukrainian's for defending themselves against attacking Russian Soldiers or insinuating Board's members are bloodthirsty, put the blame squarely where it lies. Vladimir Putin.

Its SOP for the Russians. Grozny looked the same, and parts of Damascus and Aleppo also. It was hard to find an undamaged street or suburb, but many areas were just levelled like what we are seeing in Ukraine.

Those pictures of Marinka are something else.

I remember they completely destroyed Volnovakha early on in the war too. Pre-war population of 21k. I don't remember seeing any images like that though.

It's such a depressing doctrine that the Russians seem to subscribe to: "We will destroy every building in a settlement to make it impossible to defend and then we will advance to take ownership of the ashes".

They're like some kind of imperial locusts.

While we all stood by.

Seems nothing has changed and Putin continues.

It will be the beginning of solving the problem that is the authoritarian dictatorship in Russia for the foreseeable yes. Afterward then Ukraine joins both the EU and NATO.