"Westerners would be a lot less cavalier about demanding a foreign population keep fighting until total victory if they truly understood ..." war at all. Even a military hawk that doesn't mind spending lives in battle knows UA can't fight RF and win. You didn't need any concern for "the horrors of war" to have been realistic about the likely success of RF in its stated goals at the onset of fighting. "The West" (i.e. US led NATO) over played its had in both the military war and economic war. That was rank incompetence and opportunistic political adventurism. I despise that. Fcuk'em.
"Westerners would be a lot less cavalier about demanding a foreign population keep fighting until total victory if they truly understood ..." war at all. Even a military hawk that doesn't mind spending lives in battle knows UA can't fight RF and win. You didn't need any concern for "the horrors of war" to have been realistic about the likely success of RF in its stated goals at the onset of fighting. "The West" (i.e. US led NATO) over played its had in both the military war and economic war. That was rank incompetence and opportunistic political adventurism. I despise that. Fcuk'em.