Sorry. It's just my poor English. I'm not angry at all. You just made a mistake. I'm not going to judge you, anyone could do it in your circumstances. But now it's time to undone consequences of your mistake and roll back NATO's military infrastructure to, at least, 1997 borders. And here we have, basically, three options:
1. You undone it by yourself diplomatically. You may even leave NATO. It is the cheapest way for you. Actually, you might even earn some resources from Europe.
2. We undone it by our own military force and you do not intervene. You'll pay a lot, but not in your lands and not in millions of your citizens and you'll avoid nuclear annihilation.
3. We undone it, and you intervene. This would be your gravest mistake, quite likely - the last mistake in the history of the USA.
Really? Previous time retaking Ukraine took three years (plus at least twenty years of anti-guerilla warfare in Western Ukraine) and at least 7 million lives. Now it takes a bit more time but definitely much less lives.
I believe our current progress is quite reasonable (including attrition in the USA and NATO countries).
No. As I said, we are not thinking here in the terms of cutting losses or taking land. We are thinking in the terms of elimination of the threat. Significance of a threat means than we should invest more, not less, in its elimination.
No. He just want to buy some time for NATO to attack us again later. Its not gonna work with us. And no, before making new money - it would be nice to return money Europe try to steal, and send those freaks who tryed to steal from Russians to swim in the concrete flippers.
We need real guarantees (not in words or papers) of safety for our people and we need guarantees of safety for our money. Without it making money and babies is simply meaningless.
May be. May be not.
But our production or nukes, tanks and missiles is skyrocketing. And we are not going to send our children to fight with their bare hands.
We have pretty good reasons to be doing what we are doing.
I can easily imagine what will happen if our industrial production is dropping. NATO soldiers will come and kill all our unarmed children. And thats all.