'Celebrating the first birthday of the Russian invasion of Ukraine'?
- With over a thousand people dead or wounded every day, there's nothing to celebrate.

'All of my comments are bleak, but factual and undeniable.'
- The article contains numerous inaccuracies, all in all the author displays a complete misunderstanding of the situation.

the author displays a complete misunderstanding of the situation.
Armchair Critic,
I have a gut feeling you're right !

"Celebrating" the Russian invasion of Ukraine? The old boy has truly lost his marbles.

Nothing here to celebrate! We can instead lament the completely unwarranted hostile invasion at the behest of a power-hungry madman!

Sure, there may be zealots who believe they can win and enslave the Ukraine, her people, territory and resources. If they were to succeed there would then be in their minds only, a need to create another then another new buffer.

At the end of the day, the west will not allow a sabre-rattling Russia to win but rather impose ever tougher sanctions on those who would pursue this war and any foreign backers, e.g., China, Iran.

I can see a situation where Russia's sworn enemy, a nuclear armed Turkey, with the largest standing army in Europe, could come in on the side of the Ukraine. And imminent!

Given it sees a now seriously weakened Russia as very beatable!

In spite of Everald's prognostations, I cannot see this ending well for Russia.

Let them threaten Turkey with nuclear devastation and another power junkie/madman will say, bring it on!
Alan B.

No country should invade another; but there is no excuse for that failed comedian posing as the president of Ukraine to prolong the conflict while he is flitting around world. Ukraine is being destroyed - for what? The ego of one silly little man, who is far more dangerous to Ukrainians than the maligned Putin. Ukrainian is the loser, not Russia, which is not being blown to bits.

Following on from ttbn this analysis of the situation in the Ukraine given on this site is somewhat different to the usual wall-to-wall Western propaganda on this terrible situation.
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