I agree and Ukraine has every right to resist an invasion. My concern is in two years time nothing has changed other than more dead bodies as no side will "win". I really didnt mean to trigger anyone, I just want to see this war and others end.
The only way it ends quickly is through overwhelming force applied to either belligerent's centers of gravity, which induces capitulation. The "best" thing that would happen is for Putin to die of natural causes tomorrow. The next "best" thing would be for Ukraine to successfully eliminate as many Russian C2 assets as possible. Obviously, in two years, there's been a relative stalemate -- which was wholly unexpected, and in no small measure due to Ukrainian resilience.
There will be no negotiations.
What would they even look like?
Formally ceding
de jure control of Crimea and all territory east of the Dnieper to Russia, in exchange for a promise that they won't come back for the rest of Ukraine in a few years? At that point, what does the world tell Poland?
Thinking negotiations will solve a Russian invasion is incongruent with military reality. You only have to look at history to view countless examples of how conflicts end: some kind of surrender. Belligerents don't simply mutually abandon their objectives and talk to each other. This isn't sparring. It's a question of whether Russia will be deterred from further aggression or Ukraine will be ethnically cleansed (at worst) or annexed and diminished as a people and culture (at best).
Ukraine can win this war, even if it's a war of attrition that culminates in Putin's fall from power and a Russian withdrawal. And it will be at great cost. The alternative is worse. The entire world, not just the Western world, has everything to gain from a constrained Russia (as long as Putin and Putin cronies hold power).
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