(#4971) The Ukrainian rout of putins continues...

      This putin invasion of Ukraine for all practical purposes is over. But of course not in the mind of putin who is trying to stave off the inevitable. Much like a football team being up by 58 points with 3 seconds left in the game and the other side just won't stop and take a knee on their next snap of the football. I get that defeat is hard to take and wanting to spend every ounce of energy to avoid defeat is more natural than not. However in sports you live to see another day, not so in war where death is the result of the "plays" maneuvers and there is no getting anyone back from death.
     The best thing that could happen is a total surrender from the Russian troops in Ukraine and not one more shot fired by them. Yet even as I type this putin is trying to put more reserves on the field for their deaths. There is political unrest from the Kremlin and several generals are refusing to follow putin orders. Yet is that enough to end the reign of putin and the madness of the Ukrainian invasion? So far we have seen limits reached and then new limits extended so I don't expect those who support putin to change their positions, unless of course one or more do and successfully pull off a coup.
     In the meantime however the Russian forces are being killed and surrendering in numbers never anticipated by putin or his supporters. So something will have to give, either there are thousands more Russian souls left in the dirt in Ukraine or thousands will surrender and give up to the knowledge that dying for putin is absurd. The Russian people and the Russian army were lied to by putin to start and support this invasion and now that enough time has passed to show and expose that lie, those who need to make another choice the time is right now. The defeat of Russia in Ukraine is a foregone conclusion and now would be a smart move for the Russian army and the Kremlin to take a knee!