Russia and Ukraine

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

 Putin has made it very clear that he feels Ukraine has no right to exist as a sovereign state. While the thousands of dead Ukrainians can certainly be viewed as tragic, the hundreds of thousands of ethically cleansed Ukrainians and millions of enslaved Ukrainians would be even more so.

It always makes more sense to give the bully a broken nose that to keep giving him your lunch money.

Boru

There's no "would be" here..either.  Russian filtration camps are hard at work doing exactly that in all occupied territories - have been for years.  Ukraine has a simpler and more accurate description of what they're up to.  Kidnapping.

Granted, but it’s an issue of scale.

Boru