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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, they first have to re-build their own oil industry for decades to come.
Ah yes, because desperate poor countries selling the only thing they have left, the rights to their resources to multinational corporations, never get exploited. That's why European/US investments in African resources worked so great for Africans? Wondering if there were people convincing Africans how selling their rights to their resources was somehow a win-win for Africa too. Also, then why is EU/US is so against Chinas belt and road initiative? You funny, as usual
Shall we talk about how the Ruzzian multinationals and the Ruzzian pressence in Africa is affecting the countries that DID NOT choose to have them there?
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2024)757654Russia's expanding influence in Africa also plays out through non official channels, such as the use of private military companies (such as the Wagner Group) and information manipulation campaigns. Russia has concluded military cooperation agreements with 43 African countries, and is a major, though declining, arms supplier to Africa. This cooperation is not linked to democratic pledges, and in multiple African countries hit by coups, Russia has continued or strengthened its military cooperation.
So... yeah... the Western capitalism so bad, just takes and does not give.. but...

How is it that growth arrives when Ruzzia leaves?