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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6074268" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>What you should be doing is looking at Russia&#039;s future as a country.&nbsp; Moscow and St. Petersburg are about the only viable cities left in the country as so many have moved to them from lesser cities.&nbsp; After the Soviet collapse a huge% of Russia&#039;s technologically skilled left the country.&nbsp; Their technical education system collapsed.&nbsp; They were depending on foreigners to run their mining and oil production facilities but they all left when the war started.&nbsp; Over a million Russian men fled the country when the war was about to begin.&nbsp; And Russia&#039;s demographics may have already been the world&#039;s worst.&nbsp; They&#039;re aging out.&nbsp; Putin knows all of this.&nbsp; That was why he decided to go in after Biden was elected.&nbsp; It was either then or never.&nbsp; I&#039;m pretty certain he knows his time to conquer the country is up.&nbsp; But he also knows he can&#039;t just turn tail and run.&nbsp; Likely to get a bullet in his head.&nbsp; He has to have something to show for this mess.&nbsp; So what do you do, negotiate and give him the Donbas, or continue fighting until millions are dead and wounded?&nbsp; Get him into a corner where he might use nukes?&nbsp; I sense you want to take the onus off of Biden and put it on Trump.&nbsp; Trump&#039;s trying to find a way out.&nbsp; Not what we saw with three years of Biden.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 6074268, member: 24302"] What you should be doing is looking at Russia's future as a country. Moscow and St. Petersburg are about the only viable cities left in the country as so many have moved to them from lesser cities. After the Soviet collapse a huge% of Russia's technologically skilled left the country. Their technical education system collapsed. They were depending on foreigners to run their mining and oil production facilities but they all left when the war started. Over a million Russian men fled the country when the war was about to begin. And Russia's demographics may have already been the world's worst. They're aging out. Putin knows all of this. That was why he decided to go in after Biden was elected. It was either then or never. I'm pretty certain he knows his time to conquer the country is up. But he also knows he can't just turn tail and run. Likely to get a bullet in his head. He has to have something to show for this mess. So what do you do, negotiate and give him the Donbas, or continue fighting until millions are dead and wounded? Get him into a corner where he might use nukes? I sense you want to take the onus off of Biden and put it on Trump. Trump's trying to find a way out. Not what we saw with three years of Biden. [/QUOTE]

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