Russia will succumb. Not to military pressure. Not to armies. Not to threats of war.
Russia will eventually surrender to the court of public opinion.
Russia has many Allies. Many former satellites. Hungary. India. China. They have stood by Russia and rejected any sanctions.
But the reports of the massacres are coming out. An elderly mayor of a small town and her husband and son being executed. Small children being executed. Women being gang raped. Atrocities not seen since WWII. Atrociously reminiscent of the Holodomor committed by Putin’s ancestors.
Sooner or later Russian POW’s will reveal these atrocities were done at the order of Putin. At that point, India, China, Hungary and the satellites will back away. The optics of supporting a leader who executes women and children and rapes women will be too unbearable. And all of this is self inflicted. Nothing done by Ukraine will cause the end of the war.
They will pull away. Russia will have no support. No one willing to trade with them. No one willing to buy their oil. The Russian economy will be in shambles. The ruble will be worth nothing. Russian stores will have nothing on their shelves.
Russia will find themselves alone. When this happens the war will end.
