There is a video making rounds in the dark depths of Telegram that kinda reflects the essence of this war, if the video real... which it most likely is (or at least the message being conveyed is) since it seems to have originated from Wagner's official channel.

The story goes like this: a Wagner PMC "soldier", one of the thugs they hired from prisons, gets captured as a POW by Ukrainians. He sings like a canary, tells lots of stories that may or may not be true, gets a lot of publicity. Then POW exchange takes place and Wagner wants him back. At this point the story gets a bit sketchy - some say that Ukrainians sent him back against his will, some say he was coerced to go back because Wagner threatened his family. At any rate, the video is about him singing a different song somewhere in a basement in Russia and getting his head smashed with a hammer. I'm not going to post a link for obvious reasons, you can probably google it up if you're into shit like this, but yeah... these are the "denazifiers" coming to fix Ukraine. Simple folks, traditional values.

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So your sales pitch for ending a pointless war is "we can fuck up Ukraine and our own country much more than we already have, so give up now"?

I'm afraid the answer now more than ever is going to be "better pay the high price at this time than a much larger price later". Clearly the lunatic in control of Russia and sycophants like you don't have anything positive to offer nor could you be trusted even if any such offers could be made. There is no incentive for anyone to give anything to Kremlin if the only outcome is going to be regrouping for another war 8 years later.