A Mutually Agreeable Solution for Both Sides in the Ukraine War.

[bendog]

Russia never stopped being an existential threat. But it took awhile for it to become one again even without its nuclear arsenal.

 

[AZrailwhale]

They were in Afghanistan for 8 years before they gave up.

Russia was fighting tribesmen armed with small arms in Afghanistan. Ukraine is a modern, technologically advanced country with a border lined by other advanced, friendly states that support Ukraine. The worst sanctions the USSR faced over Afghanistan was the USA refusing to participate in the Olympics. Russia faces far more severe sanctions.

 

[jwoodie]

to continue to fight an armchair war is futile

So is creating buffer states by armchair diplomacy