Maybe. I am still hoping to be right.
Zelenskiy already refused to sign his own death sentence and Putin already said, that there are all reasons to believe that we won't "coerce" them, we'll "finish" them. Hope is nice, but I don't actually see any reasons to believe in such possibility.
A crime requires intent. Dumb sailors breathing, is not intent.
Genocide, as well as natural selection, doesn't necessarily mean "intentions". Vice versa, I'm pretty sure that average British colonist in America in XVII century had much better intentions, and was, in genery, better person (from the modern point of view) than any average Slavic colonist on the Russian plain in VII century, and may be even a better person than an average Spanish colonist in the South America XVII century. But... You know, the road to hell is pawed with good intentions. In the long run Spanish colonisation wasn't genocidal, and English colonisation was genocidal. Nothing personal, no morals or something. I don't say that you are bad. But I do say, that your culture is genocidal. It's simply the fact. It is what you are.
There were a lot more indians in Mexico and South America. The Aztecs and Incans had cities and empires. And they thus survived as part of the population despite the massive waves of disease.
Yes. That's was the difference between Spanish and British colonisations.
No, it doesn't. It actually makes me quite UNhappy, that we are falling for the same stupid shit that the indians and mexicans fell for.
And what are you going to do about it?
WHy not? THey stopped killing each other and instead built massive globe spanning empires that brought great wealth to their people. They are still today, centuries later, richer than your country.
Actually, they are not "richer" in any meaningful sense.
And no, they are not killing each other only when both sides agreed not to kill each other and agreed not to cross red lines of each other. If NATO stayed beyond Elbe river, as they supposed to be, if pro-NATO Ukrainian militants didn't started mass murders of Russian civilians, may be, there were the possibility of peace. But, if you hire people to kill Russians - you should understand that the Russians will come and kill you. It's simple, I believe.
What about centuries of wealth for your people, turns off the russian heart?
Yep. Soon after the final elimination of the European threat.
Or, live with not getting your way. But LIVE.
Of course we want to live. And this is exactly why we need to eliminate NATO threat (one way, or another). Direct nuclear war between Russia and the USA gives us more chances to survive than allowing NATO in Ukraine and WWIII in not later than 2030.
We are only a few months in. Give US a chance.
We already gave the USA too much, without getting anything but empty rhetoric and stupid threats in return.
The USA can't control Europe, the USA can't control Ukraine and Trump hardly can control the USA.