Difficult to see who stands to gain from the fiasco in Russia, Ukraine…

There was once a World War daubed: ‘the war to end all wars’. Touch of irony perhaps?
if you look at the history of military conflicts, the result is damning. The USA is as divided as ever in 2023 and has been for a while now, with most of the same old debates that their civil war from over a century ago, was supposed to have settled. We now have neo-nazis thriving across Europe, and governments that are using words and saying things (e.g. in Hungary) that are very worrying and reminiscent of Germany in the 30s; be it hurtful words relating to Jews or general intolerance of those deemed different or foreign.

If Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine felt bludgeoned, could there have been a deal to pay those folk to relocate to Russia? If you try to repeatedly redraw the map of a country to satisfy those in it, who wish to be elsewhere, where will you draw the line? Quebec, Scotland…..

Was it ever likely that NATO would attack Russia? You do not need to be a genius to know the answer is NO!
Yes, Russia May well feel hemmed-in, if all the countries around them join NATO, but none of those countries nor NATO would ever contemplate attacking Russia. Ukraine was not the epitome of democracy nor tolerance either (remember several unpleasant scenes at football matches involving Ukrainian clubs over the years) but the ongoing war should never, ever have been allowed to start! And what looks like possible in-fighting in Russia (although it sounds like an uprising that will be quickly put down) is not going to help anyone either – a group of brutal mercenaries taking over any country is hardly going to a winning development is it?

Where is the UN? there needs to be a stronger organisation that says NO to military conflicts and with the wherewithal to enforce it via whatever means!