(#5158) Nearly 165,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine

      The senselessness of it all. The tyrant putin wanted to stop democracy from happening in a neighboring country and killing off the youth of his nation is now the price that is being paid. For what? The end of democracy in Ukraine is not happening but the deaths of young Russian men continues. It still makes no sense to me that the Russian people would put up with this insanity. I have already been extremely disappointed in the Russian people for not stopping the ego of putin much earlier and would never have guessed that they would align themselves with him. Why wouldn't any group of people support democracy where every person has a vote in how they live their lives?
     Are the Russian people so devoid of thought that they need a psychopath to think for them? Do they understand that their children are being used as cannon fodder for basically nothing? I don't get it. No matter how anyone tries to explain it the idea that throwing lives away in massive numbers is worth the ego of a brutish non empathetic person makes no sense. No sense at all! So are the Russian people worth being saved? Are they a value at all to an enlightened society? Because that I don't know why they are so ignorant to education and knowledge doesn't necessarily mean that they won't be in the future. Because I don't know why they continue to give their children to a murderer for him to dispose of chasing a fantasy doesn't mean that they won't eventually rise up and find their courage.
     Like the Huns of old, Maybe the putin loving Russian people need to be depleted so that a new more thoughtful strain of Russian ancestry can emerge. If they choose to follow putin down the path of death then so be it. Much like those who refuse to accept science and logic, there is little left for the rest of us to convince them of their wrongheaded ways. It is a sad thing I just said but each day more Russian troops are dying for nothing noble or precious. So if they must allow themselves to go head first into the abyss then I cannot stop them. It won't be much longer before a breakthrough happens in this hellish Russian invasion of Ukraine to stop the madness, but in the meantime the world watches with disgust and disappointment in the putin loving Russian people.