I doubt Russia is willing to pay 50MM lives for Ukraine. They are barely willing to pay the 100K or so they've lost, which is why they are outsourcing the war to the Norks.
Of course Russia prefer to achive those vital goals with minimal losses. But if necessary - 50MM is an acceptable price, too. Its not just about 20 mln of Russians living in Ukraine, its more than that. The EU officially declared their goals as "decolonisation and dechristinisation of Russia".
But if you get right down to it... Ukraine has millions of people. Alaska is a frozen Tundra where almost no one lives. Maybe we could make a trade.
You just don't know how to live and build cities in Tundra. And no, Alaska is not just Tundra. Its not just gold and oil and gas. Its not just a strategic Bering strait. Mostly important its a perfect place for IRBMs to attack US ICBMs.
Or maybe we can just hold Russia to the international standard established after WWII, that you don't invade other countries to take their shit.
Really? That "standard" finished its existence after America's unprovoked and illegal aggressions against Serbia in 1999 and Iraq in 2003.
I don't think this is a valid reason, really. We have submarines and ICBMs and hypersonic missiles now, we don't need a close base to launch nukes like we might have in 1962.
Submarines need time to come to reliable launch position, like a time necessary to open holster and took the gun. Sides have time to react before SSBNs had reached their firing positions. And, you know, with modern sensors and computers the ocean becomes more and more transparent. IRBMs are the barrel of already cocked and loaded gun in your mouth. No time for reaction.
Russia is not the victim here, and you should probably tell the rest of your trolls on the Troll farm this won't work. If Trump sells out Ukraine, no one is going to praise him for it.
It mostly depends on your definition of the term "victim", but Russia, de-facto and de-juri defend itself.
Okay, nobody was "genociding" the local Russians.
Denialism is a form of support of genocide. Of course there was genocide. It was an officially, publically and openly declared strategy of the Kievan regime. "Our children will go to school, and their children will be hiding in the basements".
And if they want to live in Russia, it's not like Russia doesn't have plenty of room for them.
If they want to live in Russia and take their land and their houses with them, I also don't see a problem here. And if Banderlogs want to live in West, Canada and Argentina still accept Nazi refugees, didn't they?
The problem with the "I can invade you if you have any Russians" is that no one would be safe.
Actually, its "I can invade if you discriminate, abuse and kill Russians, or if you are making the preparation to fight war against Russia". And most of countries are perfectly safe. And, actually, no one is safe with American "I can invade you just for lulz, without any particular reason".
20% of the population of Kazakhstan is Russian. Should they invade that, too?
No, until Kazakhstan doesn't genocide local Russians or making preparations to join a hostile alliance.
