Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Ukraine’s Spring Offensive Explained" video.

  1. That's pretty much it, the west didn't want the war, but they are going to make sure Russia pays a high price for it on the economy and it's resources. Another factor we should remember that the economic situation in the EU and US should start getting better later this year with inflation dropping a lot, that's likely will allow both the EU and US to help Ukraine in a number of ways, more than they are doing now. History will likely look at this war and wonder what did Russia actually achieve in Ukraine? Russia are having to throw a lot of lives and resources at it, it's not really achieving much, Russia has become more isolated in the world and EU as well as many other countries are buying far less resources from Russia, to top it off, Putin has created a renewable energy boom a lot sooner than it would have happened, that isn't good news for Russia, especially with many Russians leaving the country, many of which are young talented people and the longer the war drags on, the more it's going to continue to drain the resources of Russia. I suspect the US wants that, to weaken Russia as a power around the world and to weaken its economy, and a long war with isolation is likely to do that. The problem is, Putin can't afford to end the war without looking weak to the Russian people, so the ones that really pay the price long term are the Russian people themselves for not trying to prevent this war in the first place and if there is anything well known about dictators is that they don't usually care about their own people, they are quite happy to take their country to ruin if it means protecting their own position of power and history has shown how bad that can actually go for the people and maybe that needs to happen because the Russian people don't try enough to prevent these kinds of crimes from happening.
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