[nickpp]

The west has been giving up stuff since Putin gained power. Nothing has been claimed back yet. And he won’t be gone any time soon. He has plenty of targets after Ukraine too, for example Moldova which already has a separatist Russian mole region inside.

We are watching Hitler raising, not Stalin dying here.

[philistine]

What has been given to Russia is land and people. Economically, Russia has been contracting and losing its grip on the sectors it controlled.

I don't hope for war over Ukraine. I hope for the end of oil purchases from Europe. Total economic sanctions.

[darebak]

Don't you feel you are a bit hyperbolic?

[nickpp]

I’d ask my friend in Kiev if he feels I am being hyperbolic but for some reason he’s not answering his messages right now.