If anyone is still wondering when/if Kiev will be erecting statues to Boris Johnson, as the Kosovars have honoured Clinton or the Israelis and Indians Trump; the answer to that is probably never.
Putin upon observing the Kiev régime's attitude toward the Russian-speakers of the Donbass concluded that Kiev commanded too many people who hated Russia. Putin's response was to occupy the Donbass and to provoke a limited war. In a war of attrition the larger army wins. Russia had the larger army. Russia invited Kiev to expend its men in a meatgrinder.
Russia will exit this conflict with the only army. Now the Ukraine simply is short 1.1 million Russia-haters as it used to have; Russia-non-haters having found ways to slip out of the conflict. 1.1 million is a lot of dead haters; but consider the number of Israel-haters as existed in the Gaza Strip as of 7 October.
1.1 million didn't have to die. They simply had to not hate, and not fight. And not listen to faraway Westerners, "Standing With Ukraine".
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