The slaughter is the point. They evacuated millions of Ukraine's women to Poland, but told the men they have to stay, fight, and die, even to the point of attacking Russian tanks with Molotovs and other makeshift weapons.
You know what that's called? It's called genocide. Putin and Zelensky are both complicit.
Eh, given the K/D ratio's we've seen thus far, along with the presence of foreign fighters taking part in combat for Ukraine, I think this might be a bit of a stretch.
Getting women and non-combatants out of the area which could be airstike'd was done many other places before this, and the genocide of Ukrainian's is being done by Russia in areas they get to. Ukraine is also getting shit tons of weaponry, and intel to use it effectively.
I expect that unless Putin pulls out nuke's, there will be more young Russian men that die in this war than Ukrainian, and I also expect that plenty of Ukrainian's ex-pats/second gens from abroad will be joining in as well.
Zelensky isn't a saint, but he is not the one who decided to roll the dice and tried to get this sorted diplomatically.
Forgive me, but for those words I feel like punching you in the face. Because you have just perfectly presented the people with whom the Poles had to deal for two centuries when they tried to break free again.
No, the Ukrainians are not brothers of the Russians for a long time, not thanks to the actions of the Russians themselves. Just as we were never brothers of the Russians. But to some random type from the west it is the same thing that there is a Slavic language and every Slav understands.... "Fucking hell"
It really is annoying, you know? Lumping all Slavs together is like saying that English and German are the same thing and understand each other. It's like saying a Frenchman and an Italian are brothers.
No, they are not selfish and egotistical, they just don't want the Russian boot on their neck any more, they don't want to be someone else's plaything any more than we do. They want to get away from Russia and they will do everything to make it happen, and that the price is high?
Such is the price of freedom, you always pay it big and with Russians, pacifist approach ala Gandi will not work because they do not understand it.
That's why Poles instinctively understand what Ukrainians are about, and Belarus did not reconcile with being Russia's footstool. They also want freedom, but Bačka in his own arrogance and stupidity made it impossible, and now he is sitting on a powder keg and hopes that it will not explode during his rule.
Tell me honestly, are you a Russian troll meant to sow doubt among the people here? Or are you just a naive, perhaps american, who doesn't know what price is paid for independence because he forgot the one paid in the late 18th century?
Wow, but you went there. You made quite a storyline trying to put this together. Interesting.
Only one pity is that it's just plain wacky maya. You're looking for a conspiracy where there isn't one.
This, my friend, is a war for influence, an imperialist war. It's a war that the Russians started precisely because Putin didn't agree to the role the Americans assigned him and wants to show that they don't have enough power to kick everywhere.
Simply put, there is no genocide but just war. And the fact that a lot of people are dying? Well, this is the first serious war of this kind in Europe since World War II. A real war costs not hundreds but thousands of people dying every week.
It has always been like this, for centuries, what you write but to you it seems that it is a conspiracy of WEF, I would not overestimate their influence, because in this way you help them more, diminishing the idea that they can try to do something bad.
The fact is no one's hands are clean in this war, and it's just who's guilty of worse crimes and diplomatic subterfuge.
What Russia is doing is wrong; how to get Russia to fucking chill and withdraw is the real issue, and I see no good answers there.
Because as much as we can hate Putin for doing this, we have to admit sometimes the most damning things he's uttered about the West are true and he's not someone who's completely irrational. Petty, vindictive, maybe a bit of glory hound, and now a butcher, but not irrational. The US fucking around in Ukraine in the lead up to and during the Maidan, and the way Ukraine was exploited by corrupt asshats in the West (including POTUS), along with our invasion of Iraq on false pretenses, did create a reason for political paranoia in Putin.
Putin also knows the 'quickest' route to 'peace' in some people's minds, and more everyday, is his own death, which is also why he is rather paranoid and keeps almost everyone at a distance besides his yes-men.
Now Putin has both political and personal paranoia about nearly everything the West has done since about 2014. Though that's not to say Putin's innocent; this is the same motherfucker who used nerve agents in an attempted intel/counter-intel/revenge hit in Britain against the Skirpal's and caught civie's in the crossfire, plus the whole polonium tea situation, just to name a few.
While over in the West, Ukraine is something that was...well, an after-thought to most of the US public till the rebel's accidently took out that airliner (any good will I had for the Donbas rebel's evaporated that day), and then even after that it was not something most of the public thought much about besides "don't want to get into shooting war with Russia" sound bites in the news now and then.'
I don't have the answers to how to deescalate and end this conflict, but I do know we cannot find those answers till we are willing to admit the full scope of what all has happened, no matter how unseemly it is politically.
Edit: This all also ignores the whole 'Ukrainian oil deposits found in 2012 could undercut Russia's sales to Europe' and 'Russia demo-crunch means fewer fighting age bodies going forward' factors in why the war in Ukraine is happening.