Thank you for your comment, you are right that nuclear deterrance is important and should be factored into any military conflict. However, you've assumed that nuclear deterrence cannot be nullified, or that robots or drones (or say a bat virus) will not be weaponised to be a threat to a conventional military (or nuclear deterrent). I'm not so sure, all war brings surprises and unexpected developments. My guess is that we’re going to see hybrid wars in the future where it isn’t obvious that an attack has been made. Indeed in "The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons", by Xu Dezhong, it was speculated that WWIII would be fought with bioweapons. It’s quite an eye opener considering it was published in 2015.
If I was a military strategist, I would want geographical strategic advantage and maximum future flexibility.
Why write such a long posts only rehashing Russian propaganda? Removing the propaganda part, the bunch of those long posts of yours today could have been stated 10-20 times shorter as "Russia has decided to genocide a neighbor and to use the resulting wasteland of the neighbor's country as a geographical buffer".
Should the world allow it to happen? All countries have had centuries of wars. I don't see why Russia qualifies for an exception allowing it to genocide Ukrainians.
For the people not familiar with related terms - the UN definition of genocide https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml. Putin was very clear in his editorial and speeches that the destruction of Ukrainian ethnic and national identity is the main goal of the war.
I have literally said, "I in no way condone what is happening". Also, please don't start jumping to conclusions that I'm just a parrot of Russian propaganda.
It shocked me that I never considered that I would see an invasion, and let's be frank, a war in Europe.
Of course, I think there should be a halt to the hostilities... but I believe in seeing the world as it is and dealing with that, with a view to work towards what it should be. Sadly, the US and others like the UK, won't risk a NATO/Russian war. That's the only way I see the Ukrainian invasion ending.
If I was a military strategist, I would want geographical strategic advantage and maximum future flexibility.