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Have you considered fighting for your country and for your fellow countrymen? The more people that pick up and run, the easier it will be for Putin to take over the area that you live in, and easier it will be for Putin to remove any freedoms that your neighbors have. Are you okay with there being a higher chance of your fellow countrymen being enslaved by a ruthless dictator whose intent is to invade your country, while you run away?

I didn't run away, I just said that I took some of my family members from Kyiv and took them to my home! And I will not take a single step from my house, and I am not the only one, so you can assume that Putin has already lost this war, ^{[Russia would never have negotiated if their offensive had been successful]}.

A kilometer from my house, my friends and I built a fortified checkpoint, my wife cooks food for those who are on combat duty at this checkpoint, and I deliver what is hard to get, (today I gave away my electric generator and several boxes of groceries and also brought several boxes of Molotov cocktails). Tomorrow I will think about where to find a car to deliver my freezer (to store donated blood).

https://imgur.com/i2LsLAV

After watching the video, you might think that this kind of activity is ridiculous compared to Putin's weapons, but it stops being ridiculous when 15 million people do it for the fourth day in a row, (and the most surprising thing is that everyone whom Putin allegedly seeks to protect is involved in this).

if ukraine has a corrupt government that commited crimes and executed racial discrimination, then they shouldn't defend them. if you defend a corrupt government you only prolong the suffering

It does not matter what kind of government they have or don't have. The Ukrainian-speaking and Russian-speaking Ukrainians are defending their motherland from the Russian invaders. Agent Putin grossly miscalculated the response of the civilians. He thought Russian-speaking Ukrainians will be waving Russian flags and welcome his troops, instead, they got bullets and Molotov cocktails.

The West should send sniper rifles to Ukraine asap so that every able Ukrainian can snipe Russian soldiers at will.

Putin should have stopped when the two regions of eastern Ukraine as independent ("Donetsk People's Republic"and the "Luhansk People's Republic"), if he actually wanted to prove a point that Russian - speaking Ukrainian's were suffering, if that's even close to true, instead, he decided to head to Kyiv, trying to occupy the whole country.

However, I don't get how Putin believed he would be perceived as, when he's invading a country militarily, killing unarmed citizens in the process, throwing bombs and having battles right next to your doorstep.

It seems to me that Putin has changed. He is not the calculating, diplomatic, logical chess player he used to be even 10 years ago.
His actions are a bit erratic and unpredictable. I am not sure but I watched his videos over the years and did psychological profiles on him,
I can tell you, he lost his problem-solving skills. His facial expressions deteriorated. He is more angry, impatient and there is this unspoken
urgency in his communication, both verbal and non-verbal. He could be physically or mentally sick and that causes his changes in behavior.

Going into Ukraine with no logistical support beyond 3 days was not a mistake even a junior military strategist would make.
That tells me he is making all decisions by himself and rejecting the advice of his military commanders.

Nuclear readiness is just a scare tactic ahead of the meeting with the Ukrainian delegation tomorrow.
If he kills them, we'll know we are dealing with a mad man. Why do they have to meet in person? No teleconferencing in Russia?

I think he knows he entered a war he cannot win so I think he is looking for some sort of way out and a promise that Ukraine
will never join NATO. Which I think the Ukrainian side will reject. The whole 'meeting' is BS of course. Just buying time to refuel.

I just do not foresee him deploying his all army and reserves into Ukraine to control it.
Even with his ~3M (regular and reserves) forces, it will be hard to carry out guerrilla warfare with people who have a history of
resisting invaders.

The more he escalates it, the more isolated his Soviet regime will become.