Completely correct. Russia should surrender immediately, hand Putin over to the Hague, and arrange to pay compensation to Ukraine. Sanctions will stay to the end of time otherwise.
Dude, on this topic, I have not the stomach for jokes. We all know that's not gonna happen realistically. You dream of a world sharing some kind of a universal value and act and behave like the same as them Hollywood movie masses. That is just a wet dream, a fantasy. The world doesn't work like that.
Macron will capitulate light-speeds faster than Putin will ever do. This is because different culture produces different people.
As a Chinese, I have NO IDEA why Ukrainians and Russians will ever fight bitterly like this. To look at my own culture as a reference, the Mainland and Taiwan can bicker all day with each other using all their brain juice to insult and infuriate each other, but when it comes to real wars (war where people will needlessly die, just for some bravado and emotion), both side are very cautious and resolutely prioritize peace over conflict. We might wave and point guns at each other, but we know how horrible war is, and won't easily start it.
The way Russians can just pour merely 200,000 men into a territory as large as Ukraine and guarded by more soldiers, leaving vehicles after broken vehicles behind in their initial offensive maneuver, is just mind boggling to me.
Because this means they either take war so lightly, that they will charge into enemy territories ill prepared (there are no excuse for those, you can't even blame it on low budget, because it's simply a matter of maintenance and training), as if it's all just a armed parade.
Or (if you take the Russian perspective that Russia is being cornered into a war by Ukrainian large offensives into Donbass) they (both Ukrainian and Russians) are so resolute about using force as the priority option, thinking that the other party are nothing by chickens and will either too scared to respond, or too incompetent to cause any harm.
I know Ukrainian big scale offensive on Donbass prior to Russian forces moving in. But that carry the same implication. Even though Ukraine can cite international law and say that they are fighting for national sovereignty, but
realistically Russian forces are in Lugansk. Going into Donbass will eventually confront Russia forces and that is when Ukraine as a country, already are facing almost 200,000 Russian troop at their border. It's like these guys have way too much testosterones and way too little long-term-thinking for their own good.
This is what is really ruining my mood about this war. Humanity is really really f**ked up!
