Nasty.
Yes we can agree on that.
The sooner conscripts stop dying and the adults sit down and work things out the better, but the people in charge in Washington are happy for Ukrainians to die if it hurts Russia.
They engineered this whole scenario.

ArmChair Critic, addressing nobody in particular says that he " can't change the way Australians think about certain issues".

Correct. So why does he keep arguing with other posters, instead of just expressing his own opinion? Nobody on OLO - or anyone, anywhere - changes his or her opinions after their formative years. Only 5% of the population changes governments. Arguing, particularly for a bunch of anonymous nobodies, is a waste of time.

Apart from putting NATO on Russia's border, and removing Putin from power altogether, I'm becoming increasingly convinced this whole thing has always been about Crimea. Removing Russians from their naval base at Sevastopol, and putting Western aligned troops in it.

In any case the West has been waging a war against Russia for a long time regardless of when he sent troops in to protect Russian speaking Ukrainians.

US MRAPS in Russia killing civilians and shooting residential buildings
http://www.youtube.com/live/wZmL5fkZjZo?feature=share&t=2282

AC,

This is about removing the Russians from Ukrainian Donbass and Crimea.

AC,

You are a star demonstration of delusion.

Your lies:
Nato supplied weapons to Ukraine before Russia's illegal invasion- Bollocks the supply of arms only started in 2022 when it was obvious that Russia was going to illegally invade Ukraine again.

Nato countries are running out of weapons and ammo - super bollocks are not even close.
The US and EU citizens are strongly for arming Ukraine and Ukraine has in 2023 received over $10bn in weapons

Satellite photos showed dead civilians in Russian-occupied Bucha that could only have been murdered by Russians.

Russia at the cost of 10s of 1000s of men and vast amounts of materiel is now in charge of a pile of Rubble that used to be Bahkmut. Wagner is nearly wiped out,

A small handful of Russian rebels easily invaded Belgorad due to the weakness of the Russian army.

The Patriot batteries easily downed Russia's Kinsal missile.

Russia is losing this war.