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there was no realistic way to placate Russians then, and there's no realistic way to placate them now.

You need to give in to all of their demands...not just some of them.

Russia needs veto power over who joins NATO and who joins the European Union. etc.

It needs to annex neighboring countries for their resources. It needs to control energy prices throughout Europe.

Russia needs the ruble to become a more important currency. Russia needs for its athletes to be able to use performance-enhancing drugs.

Russia needs to be taken more seriously.

The rest of the world disagrees. Putin's allies disagree. Even Russians disagree. Russians are fleeing Russia to avoid the war.

As far as I know citizens of NATO-member nations are not fleeing. They are, in fact, volunteering for the war effort.

Military-Industrial Complexes worldwide have mobilized to produce and supply ordnance and delivery systems beyond the imaginations of such as you and I.

Iran is providing Russia with some drones.

Russia has mobilized 300,000 troops. It has no one to train them. And no one to lead them.

Gone to graveyards every one...when will they ever learn? All the best joined in that great armoured phalanx on the road to Kyev.

Only Putin can call it off.

Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...