Russia and Ukraine

[Jehanne]

As I posted already, I have been following this entity:

https://www.understandingwar.org/

You are following this, and your conclusion is exactly the opposite of what your site suggests? You truly lost me too now.
My point stands: For whatever reason you WANT Russia to (seemingly) win in the long run, you WANT it to be a threat, a threat that everyone else needs to bow to.
But why? Why and how does that serve your needs, whatever they are?

I want a war that should have never been fought to end as quickly as possible. Maybe because I worked in Statistical Process Control for 10 years and have formal training as a probabilist that I see the World differently than most, and through that lens, our World is closer to a global thermonuclear war than it has been in decades.

Simply put the war in Ukraine needs to end, the sooner, the better. Either Russia gets their military in gear and the West stops supplying weapons and intelligence, or the Ukrainians make a decisive and overwhelming move on the battfield that quickly drives the Russian forces back and Putin falls from power.

If I had my choice, the latter scenario is infinitely preferable to the former, but, I am a pragmatist, not an idealist.