This is nonsense. 190,000 troops cannot hold a non-compliant population of 42 million.
Strategically Russia has completely lost any ability to achieve their goals. All they can do now is punish the civilian population, and that is what they are doing. They could very well flatten the entire country, but they still will have lost the war, and failed to achieve any of their goals. They have lost all the diplomatic and economic gains they've made since the USSR fell. Who will shake Putin's hand first? That is what's meant by they have lost.
Considering the illegality of the invasion, is central to the U.N. Charter to which most countries are a signatory. Therefore the world isn't going to accept anything like a win for Russia no matter what now.
141 countries, rather overwhelming, voted for United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/1 declaring the invasion an act of aggression inconsistent with the Charter, condemned Russia's declaration of “special military operation” in Ukraine (because threats are also inconsistent with the charter), endorsed the view of the Secretary-General that this invasion is a repudiation of the principles that every country has committed to uphold and that the present military offensive of the Russian Federation is against the Charter. 141 countries demanded Russia withdraw from all of Ukraine, further demanding that Russia immediately and unconditionally reverse their claim to Donetsk and Luhansk. And deplored the involvement of Belarus in helping Russia stage this attack.
Russia killed millions of ethnic Ukrainians in the holodomor, 1932-1933. And now this. Aside from the gross immorality on the face of it - Russia has violated treaties it's a party to. It's own word, its trustworthiness, it's ability to make a promise? It's worth less than spit. It's the worst possible violation of the U.N. Charter, and they are a founding member of it. It's a literal shredding of the Budapest memorandum. And the Geneva Conventions are also MIA. So you can pretty much expect Russia only considered contracts as an expediency. They're not binding at all on them.
This also seriously risks the unwinding of the U.N as an institution, in particular if China and India are just going to continue to sit on the sidelines with thumbs up their asses. If you do not care enough to say an obviously wrong thing is wrong, and play neutral? Well then, the Charter is rendered increasingly meaningless. And if that is true, then the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty is probably next.
The terrible long term outcome of this ill conceived invasion, may be long term nuclear proliferation. Because nukes seems to be a more effective deterrent than the U.N or N.P.T. I don't see humanity refraining from using nukes for all time if nuclear proliferation takes off again. So the distillation of this war is that humanity might be doomed to engage in a 3rd world war no matter what. Avoiding that is why there's so many mental gymnastics going on right now, and stumbling like the planes from Poland thing.
Strategically Russia has completely lost any ability to achieve their goals. All they can do now is punish the civilian population, and that is what they are doing. They could very well flatten the entire country, but they still will have lost the war, and failed to achieve any of their goals. They have lost all the diplomatic and economic gains they've made since the USSR fell. Who will shake Putin's hand first? That is what's meant by they have lost.
Considering the illegality of the invasion, is central to the U.N. Charter to which most countries are a signatory. Therefore the world isn't going to accept anything like a win for Russia no matter what now.
141 countries, rather overwhelming, voted for United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/1 declaring the invasion an act of aggression inconsistent with the Charter, condemned Russia's declaration of “special military operation” in Ukraine (because threats are also inconsistent with the charter), endorsed the view of the Secretary-General that this invasion is a repudiation of the principles that every country has committed to uphold and that the present military offensive of the Russian Federation is against the Charter. 141 countries demanded Russia withdraw from all of Ukraine, further demanding that Russia immediately and unconditionally reverse their claim to Donetsk and Luhansk. And deplored the involvement of Belarus in helping Russia stage this attack.
Russia killed millions of ethnic Ukrainians in the holodomor, 1932-1933. And now this. Aside from the gross immorality on the face of it - Russia has violated treaties it's a party to. It's own word, its trustworthiness, it's ability to make a promise? It's worth less than spit. It's the worst possible violation of the U.N. Charter, and they are a founding member of it. It's a literal shredding of the Budapest memorandum. And the Geneva Conventions are also MIA. So you can pretty much expect Russia only considered contracts as an expediency. They're not binding at all on them.
This also seriously risks the unwinding of the U.N as an institution, in particular if China and India are just going to continue to sit on the sidelines with thumbs up their asses. If you do not care enough to say an obviously wrong thing is wrong, and play neutral? Well then, the Charter is rendered increasingly meaningless. And if that is true, then the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty is probably next.
The terrible long term outcome of this ill conceived invasion, may be long term nuclear proliferation. Because nukes seems to be a more effective deterrent than the U.N or N.P.T. I don't see humanity refraining from using nukes for all time if nuclear proliferation takes off again. So the distillation of this war is that humanity might be doomed to engage in a 3rd world war no matter what. Avoiding that is why there's so many mental gymnastics going on right now, and stumbling like the planes from Poland thing.