>Mind you Ukraine could have prevented all of this if Whatever comes after the if, unless it's "surrender sovereignty unconditionally", it's wrong. Putin's goa

>Mind you Ukraine could have prevented all of this if Whatever comes after the if, unless it's "surrender sovereignty unconditionally", it's wrong. Putin's goal was, and is now, to incorporate Ukraine into his empire as a client state, similar to Belarus. And eventually to take even that decorative residual bit of sovereignty. Of course at this point, taking over Ukraine will mean mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people and an erasure of Ukrainian identity and language. Just want you to be clear about what outcome you're defending.