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Without air and artillery support, the Russians will win. the will take Ukraine piece by piece.

They started out thinking they would roll into the capitol and replace the government and be done with it. Now they have consolidated their forces and will slowly expand their hold without overextending themselves.

If the Ukrainians had air power while Russia had 10 miles of weapons sitting on a road, it could have been over within 2 weeks, with Russia soundly defeated.

Even if Russia does win, it’s still been a fiasco for them.
They’ve been shown to have a 3rd rate military and their economy is in shambles.
It will take them decades to replace the military equipment that they have lost, if they ever can.

Would the US permit New Mexico vote for independence if those with Mexican heritage started demanding it?

The US government killed several hundred thousand people in order to keep the South from seceding.

It is a lot more complex than that, but your point is well taken. The war started over secession of the Southern States because the northern state governments and Federal Government were not enforcing federal laws equally for South and North, specifically when it came to their property rights in slavery. Think “sanctuary states”, except the northern states were encouraging the escape and subsequent “theft” of people’s assets, without compensation, in a huge illegal conspiracy. We can agree on how bad slavery was, but the abolitionists could not amend the Constitution to eliminate it. So they used the “by any means available” option.
Secession was not prohibited by the US Constitution, though it was by the previous governing document, known as the Articles of Confederation, which stated it was a “perpetual union”. By the time of the Civil War there were 15 states (original 13 plus Vermont and Texas) that had each been a sovereign nation and joined the Union by ratifying a treaty, basically. It was not a stretch at all that a sovereign nation could decide to get out of a bad treaty, expecially one that had changed its character to harm you. The question of states created from federal land was a different story, in my opinion.
Secession had been proposed before, by the New England states upset with the War of 1812. DDG the “Hartford Convention”, but nothing came of it.
That said, secession occurred without bloodshed. The southern people merely changed their everyday allegiance, and there was nothing the North could do about it. Federal courts and courthouses became state and Confederate courthouses, armories, forts, custom’s houses, etc. Revenues went to the Confederate government instead of Washington. By the time of Lincoln’s inauguration in March, 1861, there were only a handful of federal forts in federal hands in the South, Fort Monroe in Virginia, Fort Sumter in Charleston, Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas come to mind, perhaps one or two in the Gulf. Most had been starved out because southerners refused to provide provisions to federals, and then they became confederate forts.
Fort Sumter was about to be starved out, and Lincoln sent a resupply mission and fresh troops. The understanding was originally that fresh toops were not to be tolerated, but Lincoln added that deal-breaker, and Fort Sumter was fired upon, starting the war. Had South Carolina just left it alone, and let the troops idle their time at the fort and ONLY the fort, as everywhere else, eventually there might very well have been a non-military result, along with two separate countries. Fort Sumter is not a fun place during the summer heat of Charleston.

Some Russian speaking Ukrainians in the Donbas region wanted their own nation via a vote. A majority were not in favor. To play it safe, Ukrainians leaders would not allow a vote. So there was a civil war. Those Ukrainians did not want to be part of Russia but it could end up that way.

You can criticize Russia all you want but they lost a huge number of people helping us defeat Hitler.
Concerning the US:
We viciously attacked Iraq after 9/11, destroying a lot more civilian targets than the Russians have done so far in Ukraine, with no justification for that attack. Iraq had no part in 9/11 and their so called weapons of mass destruction did not exist.

And don’t forget the Soviet half of the Rape of Poland in 1939-40.

The US targeted military targets only during the Gulf War. Your eagerness to embrace any anti-US propaganda is duly noted.
That Iraq had WMDs is well documented, they used them during their war with Iran. That both WMDs and WMD programs were found after the Gulf war is also well documented, though of course those who are solidly anti-US will never admit to it.
As to 9/11, no US leader ever tried to tie Iraq to 9/11, though anti-US types are quick to claim they did.

Correct. Zelensky poked the Russian bear one time too many. Although Ukraine seemed on the verge of joining NATO since 1997, they had not officially joined as of 2022. But there was an unusual amount of NATO involvement within Ukraine. And those many hard to explain bio-labs.
Grifter Hunter Biden sure got a lot of money from Ukraine’s Burisma, for influence peddling.

Hey Abbott you are a propagandized moron.

how is your boss prighozin paying you for trolling and propaganda on here mate??

we had enough lies from you on here?!

Ever been to Ukraine??