How can negotiation be going on whilst you keep destroying the people you are ‘negotiating’ with??

Can't defend against Ukraine's advance. Can't locate their HIMARS systems before they skedaddle. Can't deter partisans. Can't perform counter-battery fire. Can't hide from drones. Can't lift sanctions or reduce external aid. Can't train up a functional army and overcome the endemic corruption in their military. Can't replenish the loss of equipment and refit their diminished BTGs.

 

They're doing this because they have exhausted their options, save for provoking a wider war that they haven't a hope of winning. All Russia has left is a particularly nasty flavour of terroristic spite.

Would be a shame if someone accidently smoked near the gas production facilities in Russia.

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I mean, that’s not new in war. Until a cease fire is official, anything’s fair game.

Take WW1 for example. Over 2500 people died after the armistice was already signed, because the cease fire didn’t apply until 11am.

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