Those that they don't kill or make local slaves they'll ship off to Siberia to be slaves there or gang pressed into the military and sent to the next war zone. They steal their children and ship them off somewhere to make sure they become good little Russian soldiers for the next war as well.

The troubles ain't nothing compared to what Russia does to the areas that they colonize.

My point is there's 3 million people that are going to be dying and suffering under a horrible oppressive regime. If they talk back they get sent away. That's it. And this regime is quite happy to kill them in a blink. With torture. For fun.

I'm not saying they can't win. But at what cost? At what cost to the rest of the world? Are they the sacrificial lamb to finally someday maybe beat Putin back?

If I was a person living under that regime that used to live as a Ukrainian, I'd be screaming to get out. Is it not our responsibility to get as many out as we can?

Or it costs another 100,000 (rough guess of course ) people as active soldiers and whatever current civilian horrible casualties there are plus another million refugees. To get their land back? To punish Putin? Do you really think it will happen? Does it really matter?

Is there equivalent land in the country that they can utilize? It's going to have to be built from scratch no matter what. These war-torn cities will have to be razed and rebuilt. Can you rebuild them in a different spot while simultaneously building up the industry of the country to ensure they are the most massive wall against Russia possible?

We're going to spend that money on armaments anyway for them. If not us directly then Europe. The bottom line is they're going to have their own armament industry and it's going to take off. Plus all those armaments that everyone's shipping them is now becoming orders back in the US because we have to refill our stocks.

How about we stockpile half the armaments without blowing them up right now and take the other half of that money and rebuild their cities but out of artillery range and then we get to set up a new DMZ. Let's see how rough we can make it.

Of course he can't be trusted. But can this be structured in such a way to save enough people to make it worthwhile rather than sacrificing whatever amount of people are coming next?