Why many EU/UK countries are extraordinarily bellicose in the Ukraine-Russia war is easy to understand, if thought in simplest possible terms.
Costs to them in lost people or destroyed infrastructure are zero. They do bear financial costs but these would be compensated by the seized Russian assets.
They put an implicit value of zero on Ukrainian lives.
Their implicit value on Russian lives is negative b/c they believe that there is a fundamental conflict between Europe and Russia: Napolean, Crimean War, Hitler, Cold War. 4 big wars in 200 years.
Since Russian dead are a plus, and Ukrainian dead are a zero, the longer the war last the better.
Until both sides are totally exhausted & have in the meantime destroyed own countries.
This is like Churchill's mid-1930s idea about the ideal Nazi-Soviet war to total exhaustion.
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An important thing to consider is that when the people in London and DC who caused this war see "24 Russian dead exchanged for 1,000 Ukrainian dead", they don't necessarily think "damn, we're losing", they think "hehehe 1024 dead Russians, awesome"
He knows they're all dead, he knows it was a moronic, suicidal mission to being with, but he doesn't care. His purpose is to post Hollywood-tier platitudes to push support for the war among brain addled western boomers, Slavs to the meat grinder be damned !!
Another great PR stunt by Budanov and co that led to 11 Ukrainian SOF being dronned for no apparent reason other than to provide some cool visuals (the landing, not the getting killed part) and headlines for Kiev's western braindead backers. Meanwhile nothing changed on Pokrovsk.
Russia is facing a shortage of professional clowns, veteran performer Anatoly Marchevsky has told MK.
He said the circus is losing its soul without true clowns: “not entertainers in costumes, but artists with philosophy, individuality, and a view of the world.”