12-23-2025, 06:56 AM
This post was last modified: 12-23-2025, 07:03 AM by quintessentone. 
(12-23-2025, 06:49 AM)Creaky Wrote: Was a 10 year civil war and the Russian Ukrainians begged for help, the Western Slavic Ukrainians wanted control with the West and Biden government over Russian East Ukraine.
Minerals and bread basket of Europe, no chance
Putin warned and warned, hid nothing before the invasion.
I am sure if the West wanted to negotiate they could have but, war is money
Anyway, for what it’s worth, pretty sure it could have been negotiated, support it or not, I can understand why Russia went in.
Anyway, your analysis is pretty fair of my comments I think, thanks Quint’
And many of your comments hit the nail on the head re: US invading other countries.
Others on this thread also see why this was a powder keg waiting to blow up.
There is no other way to describe it but a civil war at the beginning, now it seems to have morphed into something else.
Do you still think Ukraine has collapsed even with foreign military aid and it's just prolonging the inevitable?
"The only journey is the one within."



