Russian State Media: Ukraine tells EU leaders: Prepare for War. P. 2902 One Year Since the Invasion: A Re-cap

If war is the outcome of failed diplomacy, and I think it is, there's a problem in this conflict.

I've learned, over the years, that you can only influence people willing to be influenced. You can only negotiate with people who are willing to negotiate.

Putin is nowhere being a rational person. And, like a certain German leader of years gone by, irrationality coupled with absolute power, leads to devastating results.

Putin would be well advised to remember that ultimately the rational German leaders "found" each other and tried to use a bomb to settle the issue.

Putin also needs to realize that his troops, by and large, are fighting to survive in theater and realize, in their lizard brain, their homes are "back there". The Ukrainians are fighting for their county, culture, language, and their homes are the land being bloodied and bombed.

I'm reminded of those films where the "bad guy" thinks he's got everyone intimidated, goes too far and finds himself in the penultimate scene suddenly surrounded by the townsfolk, heretofore bullied and silent, armed with sticks, clubs, and pitchforks.

When the Swiss say "fuck you, that's enough" it's time to revisit both strategy and tactics. Vlad doesn't get that.

I don't enjoy the threads that are pro-Russia. I do, however, read some of them lest I become too overly narrow in my perspective and thinking. I fear echo chambers, not for their internal resonance, but because of all the other sounds that get drowned out and missed. Russian media is an echo chamber by and large, which creates the illusion to the gullible or validation to the jingoist that "all is well".

Until Russia is "bombed" by truth, until Putin is removed from power by natural or manmade causes, all we'll see is the limits of treasure on the waging of war and the effects of uncontrolled psychosis on the landscape of both Ukraine and Russia.

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Kinky

I like it when the enemy is wasting energy fighting among themselves.