Russia is pathetic

Russia launched a huge attack on Kyiv and killed ten people. It's a war crime, but not a very effective one. It took resources away from the front and betrayed the malice of the entire enterprise. For all practical purposes, Ukraine is part of NATO and Moscow does not have the means to prevent it. A hint from an old cold warrior - your nukes have not had the gas treatments necessary to function - and everyone but Trump knows it. On the energy front, the current developments in small molten salt reactors have made Russian oil and gas useless in the long term. Russia does not have the industry or population to exploit what China might be able to do - and China is in the same demographic boat Russia is - one that is sinking.

No one is going to attack Muscovy. It has nothing anyone wants. Not the food. Not the culture. Your people don't even smile at each other. It is in the same league as Belarus, eastern Germany and Hungary. The nations, if their people were effective at doing modern democracy, would have had revolutions by now. South Korea, which is dying as far as population growth, at least can stop a dictatorship from forming.

If Zelinsky wanted to do to Moscow what Putin is doing to Kyiv, he would be much more effective. He does not because he is not a war criminal. The U.S. could ruin Moscow in a 30 hour operation. We don't kill civilians the way we used to. I take that back - we did that quite well in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Don't press your luck, Vlad. Just stop the war. Just resign and fire your security state apparatus. Give the land east of the Urals to China - or buy it to settle your war debt to Ukraine. Without the oil fields, it cannot be exploited well by Russia. In a generation without the Putin system, its people might be worth admitting into the European Union. They certainly are not now. Someone needs to teach them how to smile first.