Tactical and operational pressure
Russia is putting more and more tactical and operational pressure on the Ukraine side, putting more and more pressure on their forces causing them to spread out and having to fight simultaneously in so many places, which means: if there's a breakthrough in any one places they just don't have enough operational reserves and theater reserves to be able to plug the gaps and still not sacrific somewhere else, just because there's so much pressure.
Conflicts cannot be solved without talking
Negiciations in Saudi-Arabia
The first thing that has to come first is to end the fighting in the war, because these other things can't be discovered until after the the fighting has stopped anyway, so to to delay trying to find a negotiated settlement on the theory that Russia may go further uh is is self-defeating, because that all that's going to do is prevent the stoppage of the loss of life.
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The economies of Western Europe, they're all generally speaking with one or two exceptions in deep trouble so why would you want to take over that. What's what's the what's the value to Russia? I can't see any value.
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I'm trying to still work out why so many of the western leaders and their military leaders as well as political leaders are so fixated with what with the political narrative that you've just described. You know that Putin is the hitlerian demon and zalinski is the churchillian hero, when you look at it it's almost the not quite the opposite, but it's not far off being the opposite.
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The vision of Europe which is going almost hysterical in terms of wanting to rearm um and further impoverish itself having already impoverished itself using sanctions that acted like boomerangs to the Europe an economy.
