If by interesting, you mean 'rambling, incoherent and pure lunacy', then yeah. Very 'interesting' indeed. Fringe idiots like Elliot are best ignored on any topic, let alone ones as complex, nuanced and serious as this war and all it's potential outcomes.
Sanctions rarely work, because they are slow to be effective and incentives to evade them are massive.
Perhaps the only time I'll even remotely agree with you on this topic. Yes, our short-sighted government has failed to recognize that we are setting ourselves up for a tough situation further down the road. That was always going to be the reality though, regardless of who we have as head of government.
The EU is cutting off its nose to spite its face, but post-Brexit, there is no legal reason for the UK to have to follow suit.
Yet, as much as it displeases you, we are doing so anyway. There's nothing saying we
can't, as far as I know.
Russia is also winning militarily in the Donbass and much of Novorossiya.
As has been repeatedly stated already, they are making these gains in these regions at great cost to themselves, something that they simply can't sustain long-term. I'm sure I don't need to tell you that winning battles is much, much different than winning the war. The West's collective ecomonic power far surpasses that of Russia, and it did long before 24th Feburary and the weeks following.
It is clear that the Ukrainian forces have put up valiant resistance, but are now at breaking point and their front in the Donbass is on the brink of collapse
Given what we've seen and what we know, Russian forces are far more likely to be ground down in Donbass than the Ukrainian forces.
partly because they lack weaponry to combat the superior Russian forces.
Quantity does
not always equal quality. The Russians have proved that once again with the tanks they're now deploying, some of which (namely the T-62s) date back to the Khrushchev era for crying out loud!
Like I said before, that's the way pendulum of war swings and has swung for time immemorial. And besides, barring the little, if any, basic maintenance that these tanks likely
haven't recieved, what happens to said tanks and the poor sods operating them when Ukraine fields those high-tech weapons from the next round of Western miltary aid? Swiss cheese, that's what.
However, the real winner in this European civil war is China.
If this is a civil war, then WW2 was one too.
If we're twisting the meaning of 'civil war' like this to suit this utterly deranged narrative, so was WW1.
Oy vey.
