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In the short term, certainly. In the longer term? I'm pretty glad not to have been born into an occupied British puppet state. If not for a man with the obstina
by gnfargbl 2y ago
In the short term, certainly. In the longer term? I'm pretty glad not to have been born into an occupied British puppet state. If not for a man with the obstinacy of Zelenskyy, I might have been.
It was always ironic that Trump kept a bust of Churchill in the Oval Office but after today, it's almost obscene.
- logicchains 2y agoIn the longer term there's realistically no chance of Ukraine regaining the land it lost. In both this scenario and that scenario Russia annexes part of Eastern Ukraine, but in that scenario there aren't hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainians.
- gnfargbl 2y agoAnd what exactly do you think Putin will do after he successfully exits this particular engagement? Past performance is, in fact, often quite a reliable guarantee of future results.
- johngladtj 2y agoLick his wounds for years, and die. This Ukraine debacle wasn't the clean win he wanted.
- gnfargbl 2y agoIf you believe Putin only wants "clean wins," you've fundamentally misunderstood his character. It's a binary outcome from his perspective. If he obtains his his key objectives at some survivable cost, that's a win for him.