Putin has sent his lambs to get slaughtered.

THOUSANDS OF 20 YO Russian men dying in the name of grèed.

Special military operation, not a war.

In two weeks, Russia has already lost more soldiers than US  lost in Afghanistan or Iraq over 20 years.  The Russian loss rate is higher than US sustained during the worst weeks of Vietnam.  This has to be an incredible shock to the Russian military.  Putin has publicly denied that any conscripts are in the war but now that  the dead and captured are turning out to be draftees, the military is admitting what Putin wont.  

Unlike Afghanistan or Vietnam, millions of citizens of the invading nation share a long border and a language  with the people being invaded.  There's no way to effectively  hide the nature or the scale of the losses from the population.  Russian hospitals in the far west must be overwhelmed with casualties right now. 

At present rates, the Russian army will lose cohesion fast.  My assumption is that if Russia can't force a surrender or highly advantageous peace before Orthodox Easter, than Putin is out within the year.  If Russian losses are so apparent that they can't be hidden during the annual May 9th Victory parade, Putin is out.  Honestly, I think Putin has built a deathtrap for his dictatorship and then stepped right in it.

I wonder about how COVID is spreading through Eastern Europe right now.  Ukraine and Russia have the lowest vax rates in Europe and were reporting all-time high transmission rates before the war put an end to such reports in mid-Feb.  I haven't seen any reporting but I would assume given mass migrations, absence of distancing, cold, wet weather, etc that COVID is exploding out from this region right now.  If a deadly, highly transmissible version emerges it could have a major effect on how this invasion plays out.

Russia has 41095 live births a day. World population is so crazy right now, casualties mean nothing to the sustainability of a nation until its in the multi millions.

So Russia is losing the war so bad, Zelensky has offered a surrender if they promise to never join NATO.

Putin's response?

Unconditional surrender, and nothing else.

GP, the thing I don't get about people like you and Incel-Chud/Wylted is you turn around and one minute say you're concerned with fighting tyranny and the next kneel and let tyrants rule and get furious that anyone empathises with and sticks up for the victims.

You're assuming USA isn't an evil empire with its own brand of tyranny.

No, I'm not assuming that; I know for an actual fact that Russia is more tyrannical than the US is, to live in and now internationally too.

Putin's Russia would give you less of every single right you right-wing libertarians cherish, if only you used your head and comprehended that.

there are almost no libertarians in the GOP atm. There's nothing to worry about regarding Americans getting too many freedoms from the government in your lifetime.