[Pierre]

I think a way of looking at this is, and this is pure opinion/observation on my part is this.


There is a lack of fighting age men volunteering, regardless of supposed support in that demographic.

Russia has failed to make any meaningful advances in two years.

The line has been held and has been static for some time.

If it was the U.K. for example, and France invaded the IoW a decade ago, where many residents considered themselves French anyway…and nothing was done.

Then France invaded the New Forest and the South Downs, but it was clear they didn’t have the capacity to advance further, and we didn’t have the capacity to push them back.

Would I want to see my son sacrificed for that, would my wife want her husband and children martyred for that? Would Scotland send their sons down for that?

The current situation is not an existential threat to Ukraine, a negotiated peace is still there to be won. Putin will be dead in a decade or so.

It’s not appeasement.