Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday hinted that the Ukraine war could soon end. Speaking to reporters after marking Russia’s Victory Day parade, Putin said: “I think that the matter is coming to an end.” The comment was made in response to a question about whether Western help to Ukraine went too far. The Russian leader said: “They started ratcheting up the confrontation with Russia, which continues to this day. I think it is heading to an end, but it’s still a serious matter.”
Putin’s remarks come as Kyiv and Moscow observe a three-day ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine this weekend. The truce was announced on Friday by US President Donald Trump after negotiations brokered by Washington. European Council President Antonio Costa on Thursday said the European Union was prepared to hold separate talks with Russia and Ukraine “when the right moment comes."
Their sources likely count differently. Dead only, vs. dead + wounded.
You wanna sink a war machine? It’s quite easy. Just drown them in wounded troops, not corpses. Corpses don’t move, corpses don’t eat, corpses don’t need to be cleaned or bathed, corpses don’t need expensive surgery and therapy to get back to living normally, corpses don’t need teams of people to look after them. Wounded troops do. Wounded troops are expensive, corpses are cheap.
Flood the machine with wounded. Make every advance so miserable and destructive to the budget and supply line that any sensible general will eventually say “fuck it!” and pull out. That’s what Ukraine has been doing, unfortunately Putin isn’t sensible and has surrounded himself with sycophants.
this is exactly it.
It’s far better for Ukraine to blow off arms and legs than kill soldiers. The more wounded sent back to RU, especially those who can’t be rehabbed back into combat readiness, the better. And the more of such people who get into RU society the better- SHOW the RU people the cost of the war. Don’t let it be some abstract concept like war is to Americans.