You're not going to like this post.
I'd like to see the Russians WIN and get it over with.
Yup, I said it.
I would rather see the Ukrainians WIN and get it over with. Much more comfortable with a victorious Ukraine as an ally and European energy stabilizer than a victorious Russia as not only an enemy, but a supporter of all US enemies and a threat to our allies. Yup, I said it. Because it makes sense.
The Ukranians should have invited the Russians to negotiate early
Yeah, and the US should have invited the Japanese to negotiate early right after they took Wake Island, bombed Pearl Harbor, and invaded the Philippines.
just after they had bloodied the bear's nose quite a bit.
Uh, I think you got that backwards. Russia is the aggressor here. Russia is the one bloodying Ukraine.
They MIGHT HAVE gotten a better deal than they're going to get now. And a good part of their nation wouldn't have been destroyed in the process.
What deal would that be, pray tell? I guess you seem to have forgotten that Russia tried to take the whole country by marching a 100k strong army to the outskirts of Kyiv while Putin was calling them all drug addicts and criminals. Where was the negotiation in that?
Now, all that's in the Ukrainian future is a negotiation on Russian terms, or worse, loss of the entire country.
It is precisely because they chose to fight back that they haven't lose the entire country.
I told you that you weren't going to like this post.
You're right. I don't like your post. Because it is complete BS. Russia can end this war any time it wants. By getting their troops the hell out of Ukraine. It is really that simple. And I wholeheartedly reject the surrender you advocate that will put Russian troops on the Polish and Romanian borders while handing the entire Black Sea over to the Russian Navy.