What’s the context?

Some unscheduled out of spec combustion at the local refinery?

“what air defense doing” indeed

the number of intact tank clusters suggests there will be at least a fourth and fifth attack.

There is such a thing as security guarantees.

Which are completely useless when Russia frames territorial gains as a great victory and uses that as a propaganda tool to propel its minions into power in guarantor countries, like AfD, Reform, RN

An “agreement” under duress that includes territorial concessions. And the inhabitants of those territories will then promptly be genocided.

And then Russia will attack again when they’ve rearmed, to do the same to the rest of Ukraine.

Amazing solution.

What’s your solution then? Force Ukraine to surrender, so Russia can starve Ukrainians without them being able to shoot back?

They know the war is senseless. They know Russia is not defending itself.

Most of the ones who do go to war do it for money. So they know they’re not dying for a noble cause.

I’m not debating who the aggressor is or who started the war. It’s not relevant to this situation.

It is extremely relevant to the situation.

The soldiers on one side die pointless deaths for their leader’s vanity. If you tell them they’ll die if they join it’s a deterrent, because they can stay home and be safe.

The soldiers on the other side die protecting their home and their people. If you tell them they’ll die if they join it’s not a deterrent, because they’ll die if nobody joins as well.