There is an easy way to end the war: Russian withdrawal. It really is as simple as that.
Not physically possible under russian law.
While we all want the war to stop, it cannot be done at any price. Ukraine must be allowed to return the areas stolen from it and Russia must return to pre 2014 borders. Either they do it willingly or with force. No one likes it, but it’s Russia that chose to attack, not Ukraine.
Again, this is not possible under Russian law. The notion that it’ll be done with force is similarly unrealistic, nukes would fly before these were taken by force. But before that happens you’d have to see the removal of the Russian warships off the coast which will be obliterating anything that comes near Crimea. It just isn’t ever happening without a navy or an airforce.
I hope your friends are safe, but at the same time I hope they have the sense to leave Crimea until things settle.
They’re fine for now. It’s relatively quiet there because the defensive line is so far away, barring these bridge incidents.
And let’s hope for peace, but recognize that it cannot be achieved by giving into the offender’s demands.
We’d be there already if not for boris fucking johnson. I really don’t know why you care about the “offender’s demands” either. Are you a nationalist? People are what matter. I could not give a shit about what flag exists between the two, right now it’s just a situation where two extremely shit sides throw thousands of lives into a meatgrinder and all I want to see is the meatgrinder stop.