I am not sure even Putin could survive the war ending with him having lost all those hundreds of thousands of troops and vast amounts of equipment for no territorial gain. The army would not let him. (View Post)

I fear he would count that as a win. Ukraine barred from the EU and NATO allows Putin to rebuild and do it all over again in a few years when the Western reaction will be either exactly the same or s… (View Post)

We can and should do all three. (View Post)

The only obvious answer to your point then is to make sure that all the countries along the Russian border (including Ukraine) are armed with nuclear weapons. That is the only way they will ever feel… (View Post)

They are also a lot more vulnerable to permanent destruction than a bridge. You can rebuild a bridge - as we have seen previously in Crimea but if a big enough bomb can be detonated in a tunnel the d… (View Post)