What I've described isn't Russia winning, it is areas occupied mostly by Russians coming under Russian control, and the rest being in Ukraine. It is the most sustainable long term outcome now, as I say, shame it couldn't be different but idiots running Ukraine decided to be aggressive towards Russians living there, as you well know, and then decided to talk NATO membership, which Russia understandably would never accept.

More to the point, it is the outcome that will happen because Russia are not going to lose. They'd sooner see Ukraine wiped off the map than have dangerous Western countries on their frontiers. Yes, to them, we are dangerous. And history suggests they have a point.

You've somehow managed to OD on the blue pills shooting out from the TV and believe it is a simple, one sided case of good vs evil. It isn't.

Sorry, but if you genuinely think that there are cultural, genetic, and psychological differences between the average Russian and Ukraninian soldier, such that one is evil and the other is the righteous hero, then you've definitely lost the plot. It was only a couple of years ago that reports of nasty SS style militias in Ukraine were common place, although we hear less mention of those now. I'm sure they're lovely lads, just like their grandfathers.

Again, I'm not on Russia's side, although I do feel obliged to offer some balance since most other people around here and in general are swallowing the usual tripe dispensed by our own deranged masters and media psychopaths.

You all seem to get duped - every single bloody time, as if there isn't a brain cell between you. You all got conned into following the covid narrative, which was idiotic, even though wiser heads were suggesting otherwise at the time. You've all been conned by the climate emergency piffle. Conned by the "refugee" scam. Conned by the Ukraine affair, very similar to the Iraq con and various others. Conned every single time, never noticing that your wealth, culture and way of life are all being destroyed under your noses.

Your points are simplistic. States are only as stable and viable as their underlying populations, cultures, histories, and general circumstances allow them to be. Eastern Ukraine is Russian, just as parts of Ulster are British. The people occupying those places aren't going to just disappear, and having them bullied within the borders of a "country" isn't any better than the criminal aggression from outside, as you refer to it. It boils down to a line on a map vs reality.

I don't think what I've suggested is a positive outcome for Russia. Nobody wins in this.

But if you want to do your bit for the plucky Ukrainians, get yourself a flight over there and knock yourself out. The way things are going, British troops might end up being shovelled into this rubbish and then it'll be other people paying the price for your bravado and dubious moral superiority.

There are always stupid people wanting to be involved (from a distance) and "do the right thing". That's how a million of Britain's fittest, smartest and finest young men were churned up in the first world war, and this country went from being the world's largest creditor to it's largest debtor. And for what? Nazi Germany came along and then there was even worse. An absolute waste, but obviously made some do gooders 'feel' nice inside, probably until the point their children and numerous others they knew never returned home.

Today's weaponry makes things all the more risky. Never underestimate the potential for unintended consequences. Practically every intervention I've witnessed being undertaken by our "leaders", whether economic, military, medical, or otherwise, has resulted in disaster. And they only seem to get more amateurish.



Only thing I can say in your favour is that you haven't been conned into thinking an annual trade deficit of £91Bn and a £12Bn membership fee as part of the EU scam is a good idea.

All these cons are of a piece as far as I can see, and it is always the same people in favour of it all. They consistently win, whilst the average person is consistently ripped off.

It`s hard to see how the war can end . Russia can`t be defeated , even if they lose most of the occupied territory in Ukraine , they can gradually turn the economy over to war production and keep going for years . They have huge natural resources and lots of manpower .
It could turn into a war of attrition . Ok , the West can keep supplying weapons , but what about soldiers , what happens when Ukraine starts to run out of them ?

It can end by economic and/or political collapse in Russia.

Recall the Soviet Union collapsed, no one thought that possible. Putin's government can easily do the same. It's fragile.

There are people waiting in the wings to take the opportunity.

Military defeat in Ukraine might easily be the trigger for that to happen. It might be triggered by another mobilisation by local revolts in places like Dagestan, that came close last time with minor gun battles with recruiters and dozens killed at a training ground.

People were taken be surprise last time, next time they will be ready. Chechnya has already been exempted from mobilisation.

Or the civil war in Armenia might kick off again and result in republics leaving the Russian Federation, triggering a domino effect.

The lack of the predicted second mobilisation in January is telling. It appears it got postponed or cancelled at the last minute. Putin was slated to make an 'important announcement' but it got cancelled.

There are lots of ways it could go. My feeling is there will be some sort of conclusion before the end of the year. Though I can't say what I think the outcome will actually be.

Then it was tanks, then it was missiles capable of striking 190 miles behind Russian lines, then it was jets..
and a Gulfstream Jet (for personal use) then it was battleships, an aircraft carrier, battlefield nukes..