There is this famous tweet that I am unable to find, that essentially says:
"If you tell Ukraine to just surrender the parts Russia want, please point to the parts of your country you would surrender if one of your neighboring states attacked your country."
I think a fair number of people who live in countries divided among factional and/or ethnic lines would actually welcome certain undesirable parts of them splitting off. I know I would cry crocodile tears over Florida ending up as part of Cuba. Or Mexico. They can take Kentucky, too.
The problem here is that the war doesn't seem to be about Donbas.
Russia will be dealing with separatists attacks and assassinations for several decades on the occupied territories. For me this is one of the reasons for this new partial mobilization.
They would in either case. Give Russia what it wants in Ukraine and it will tell you what parts of Poland it considers theirs and threaten nuclear war as the alternative. The only good news: it'll stop once it reaches its eastern border.
For every bullet produced and soldier trained by Russia, the west can train 20, and they could be in Ukraine if needed. 'next attack' would be an even bigger disaster
This is true, but then we'd leave the people in occupied territories to the Russians, and with the amount of mass graves and torture victims we continually discover that's probably as good as a death sentence.
