Armen Sarkisyan was a mafia boss from Gorlovka in Donetsk People’s Republic. He organized the Arbat Battalion to fight in Ukraine. He was recently assassinated, purportedly by a suicide bomber in Moscow…
The Special Military Operation in Ukraine is often compared to the Great Patriotic War (what the Russians call WWII but starting in 1941). In this war, the USSR appointed capturing Berlin as the final goal. Where does the Berlin lie today, which Russia could capture and claim victory?
Armen Sarkasyan: Our Berlin today is reaching the Polish, Slovak and Romanian border. We need to liberate the entire Ukraine. No region has to be left under the rule of the Kiev regime. In opposite case, the unliberated territory will be used by NATO instructors to train Ukrainian soldiers, to continue the Russian-Ukrainian conflict through other hands, and fight Russia.
Initially, Russia demanded Ukraine implements the Minsk Accords, and stays out of NATO, and normalizes relations with Russia. When this turned impossible for the Ukrops to do, Russia decided to cut out the corridor to Crimea. And now Russia fights an attritional warfare in Donbas, Kharkov, and Kursk. At the same time, Trump wants to end the war and will talk to Putin today. Zelensky says he will not accept anything agreed there. 😆
The problem is that if Ukraine is not thoroughly defeated, the Ukrops would think they have won and would be tempted to start shit again in the future. Mark my words, the Fins still think they won because they weren’t swallowed by the USSR. Russia might of course be satisfied with a corridor to Crimea but can the Ukrs be trusted?
Insomniac Resurrected 
I don’t think the Ukrainians will have the demographic “juice”. After this is done.
The population was 50+ million in 1991, now it’s 30 million or less in 2025. Whilst skewing old & female.
Plus the country will be a desolation of crumbled or bombed out infrastructure *and* an impoverished shit-hole.
Many will leave/never return.
Finns might delude themselves, but nobody really deep-down cares what they think.
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On my old blog I said Ukraine will be populated by wild boars and feral hogs. 🐗 🐖 And the latter will be hunted by Ukrainian elite. But back then I did not expect attritional war in the East, and millions of refugees. Things have only accelerated since then. This place is no full of Ukrainians. I meet so many in my work. I was at the doctor’s office this morning and met some. I hear there are like 500k of them here. And it is not hard for them to integrate into Czech society. Czech is very similar to Ukrainian, to Russian as well in a sense. So once you tune your ear to it, you will have no problem existing here.
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