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From far away Japan, it is correct to think that the Soviet or Russian upper echelons are cunning, do not tell the truth, everything they say is a lie, and they do not keep their promises 100%. The US may be similar, but the US is still better. If Putin wants the DPR and LPR, he will get the OK if he distributes $1 million to every Ukrainian individual.

Trying to rob it with a gun is what a stingy gang does. Gangs and Mafia are limited to getting rid of them quickly.

Doesn't anyone offer a bounty?

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Just the mere phrase "...abandon its war of conquest..." is enough to make me abandon your dissertation. At this late stage it certainly does not look like a war of conquest. Nothing like it. Even the physical fact of where the fighting takes place testifies to that: it is on Donbas Oblast land. DPR and LPR are trying to get Kiev off their land. It is they who are fighting against a 'war of conquest'.

Then there is the question of peace and the saving of lives. Nowhere in your dissertation do you even make oblique reference to such considerations. The hatred of Russians simply for the sake of hating Russians and all things Russian that is so ubiquitous in the Kiev propaganda can be sensed in this alone. Death and dying, suffering and warfare make you happy. You really think that who rules Donbas is more important than the lives of the people of Donbas and, more telling, you think it more important than the lives of your own people (as you would have it).

Then there is the question of persons involved. You stick to the manta: Ukraine v Russia. For a year DPR and LPR have fought valiantly against, sadly, their brothers. It is quite clearly, blindingly obviously, Ukrainian v Ukrainian and all Ukraine lovers should weep tears of blood over it.

But you ignore it entirely as beneath mention.

Then there is the repeated claim that this and that 'gift' from the USA increases 'Ukraine's' chances of mounting offensives etc. No they don't. Ukraine can mount no offensives. Ukraine today can barely live. Ukraine is on life support. Ukraine asks the world for that support.

It is like a bedridden patient on life support being given a machine gun and you claim you've increased his ability to mount offensives! Yes. If he has someone else to hold the gun for him. Yes, if he has information on targeting provided by someone else. Yes if he is supplied with ammunition and supplies by someone else. Yes if he has transport supplied by someone else.

It is like a hollywood movie. Within a couple of scenes you'd have the walking corpse shot to pieces and shambling zombie like through scene after scene being propped up by what? My imagination fails. It is the last word in macabre. Some ultra horror film. Some disincarnate evil monsters seek to wreak evil havoc on the human world but they need a human body through which to operate...

So they find this hospital bedcase and zombify it...

Add the final black irony - the hospital case will be charged for every 'gift' it receives to enable it to 'mount offensives'.

Yes. You deserve the highest accolades. For masterful misdirection, misrepresentation, deception...

And the price you exact for this? You have had over 100,000 dead and god knows how many injured thus far. I would suppose you're happy with say another 100,000 dead? On the part of those you support! On the part of those you pretend to support!

I am sickened. Was that part of your wish? You got it. I am thoroughly sickened.

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