Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Who , in their right mind, would want to negotiate a solution to the conflict with such a di——ad.

and why should Ukr even think about negotiating with Moscovy if that what it thinks about Ukr.

God help any individual , country or organisation trying to bring both sides together

3 and 4 are correct, the other points are Kremlin spin.

I wonder can we start an alternate view of Russia to counter the projection "don't look at me" spin from the Kremlin?

1. Russians have allowed themselves get a dictator into power.
2. This dictator compares his rule of Catherine the great. A ruler of German heritage.
3. This dictator will use any Russian as cannon fodder but especially the subjects from the disadvantaged areas who cannot bribe the enrolling officers.
4. This dictator has expansionist views and sees war as a distraction to his disastrous rule of Russia where there is religious strife among Russian Orthadox and Muslim followers.
5. The economy is built on primary resources and Oligarchs control the industries. Oligarchs which now also have private armies and security forces. Corruption and stealing is seen as normal in Russia.
6. Putin learned lots while in east Germany. From kidnapping children of politicians to espionage to media controlling the narrative and how it's reported or not.
7. The Kremlin sees people as pawns on a chess board to be moved around and keeps moving ordinary people to control the population.
8. Putin is an admirer of the ways that Hitler ruled in wartime. And has used the tactics of the Wehermacht. From the demonisation of your opponents to justify war, to wartime propaganda of Goebbels, to the stealing of children to be raised in Russian doctrine.
9. This dictatorship rules solely on fear. Expats abroad have learned this to their cost. With killings, hangings, stabbings, poisoning, of those and their families from this dictatorships tentacles.
10. Russia has many admirers of how Hitler ruled and has white supremacy followers and who would call themselves Nazi even if the Kremlin deny they don't exist.

Feel free anyone to add more.

History repeating itself after a fashion...when a massive trench and fortification system was built to protect France from a German invasion after the first world war.

Who was it who said that would be a 3 day operation, or 10 day day operation? For sure, the Russians had apparently only planned for a short military phase of their plans for Ukraine and did not expect to be bogged down in the Donbas a year later, but which Russian official said these exact words, or was it something being bandied about by talking heads on those ridiculous Russian propaganda shows on their state network?

Russians film their own tank getting hit

Surely trenches are useless? With drones nobody has to worry about elevation or line of sight ?

+1000 for the Dune reference

Filtering and re-education camps something they have been doing since the invasion,we will eventually hear they were transported to Moscow and put on trial for crimes committed against Russians and sentenced to life in prison

The West need to come together as a whole and basically give an ultimatum to Russia, leave Ukrainian sovereign territory/cease hostilities/stop committing genocide (phrase it as diplomatically as they want) or else Ukraine will be provided with anything and everything they need/request to defend themselves.

I'd certainly like to see any money seized to start to be used to purchase arms for Ukraine. It's almost like Russia believes when the war finally ends, things can go back to normal. Russia will get back their seized assets, sanctions dropped etc... It seems lately the political pressure on Russia has lost it's voice.

Even if there's an eventual end to this war, as long as Russia keeps Ukrainian land, it will just enable the next authoritarian regime to do similar to another country etc...

Wounded Ukrainian soldiers being treated here in Dublin,not something you expect to see too often,