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He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.

The trick is fighting or running in shackles. If they ain't gonna fight, why waste the upkeep on them. Execute them. You can always sell their remains and make good money off them... as the Zelensky team seems to be doing long time now.
True. Â The Little Green Goblin can 're-hypothecate' his troops and continue his grift until all of his sponsors are broke (or run out of office although as Romania shows us, it isn't going to happen by voting.) Â Much of Ukraine is now owned by Western financial kinkpins like Larry Fink and they have extensive experience with rehypothecation.
Sadly for Fink, the cherry on top of his grift - the creme de la creme - was going to be that 'Ukraine' was to receive multi-trillion dollars in 'reconstruction' funds to rebuild his newly purchased property at Western taxpayer expense. Â Now nobody has much interest in doing so except a handful of WEF 'young global leader' puppets playing prime minister roles in the Collective West countries. Â And their ranks are rapidly shrinking as people finally wake up to their games.
Investing is not giving away. Europe and the US are always looking for the right place to invest. It is usually a win-win, Ukraine gets proper development, has higher level of independence and get to actually vote, employment gets much much better and obviously "the West" as you call some countries have the expectations of a return.
All this is very basic, but we are all going to see the difference... 100 meters from where Ukraine ends, there will lay a devastated unpopulated land where Ruzzia will do... nothing.