So Ukrane would get Crimea?
There are costs to continuing conflict, but because of sustained increasing Ukrainian technology and training, it will shift more rather than less to their favor. But Putin likely thinks more like you do, which is why they continue to fight even though omniscient lines on maps would suggest they have alternatives mutually preferable to war.
Depends what you use as your scale of left and right. And that left right sliding scale isn’t terribly useful either. How far left you view something is more relative to your own position rather than absolute. There are a lot of places that accept genuine discussion, just not bad faith arguments and particularly vile speech. What were you trying to say that got shut down?
Do you think exploding-heads.com is an echo chamber? It seems like an absolute free speech haven would attract people banned from everywhere else, bringing togethe extreme viewpoints without any moderate or opposing views, causing an echo chamber
So users on exploding-heads.com can’t downvote? That seems unintuitive
His answer was that he’d somehow end it in the first day in office. Since he can’t cause Ukraine to make gains in one day, that means he’ll force them to make major concessions to Russia by threatening to withhold support to Ukraine. So he’d essentially end the war by letting Russia win, at least partially.
Which is why I was confused with you said “while the rest of the lands are ceded back to the Ukraine” since Crimeia is still contested.
Which is what Putin and you think. I won’t be able to convince you that a few burnt-out Leapards doesn’t mean NATO equipment is useless. There’s a typical cycle that Russian media views any new acquisition as incredibly provocative and escalates the war before it is sent, then nothing at all and offers no new capabilities once it is delivered. For example, do you think F16s would be a huge capability for Ukraine? I do, but once they are delivered in a few months or years, I’m sure Russia will say they’re nothing new.
Ukraine is trying to do the hardest thing an army can do, break through heavily entrenched enemy lines without air superiority. We’ll see if the offensive will end up achieving a lot or a little, but it has already been infinitely more effective than Russia’s ‘winter offensive.’ I’d recommend William Spatnel’s game theory analysis videos for the bargaining and strategic analysis and Perun’s videos for more in-depth on what capabilities which systems offer Ukraine and Russia.