Howdy @SpikeTalon

It's interesting to see how the Russian info war is finally ramping up. Ukrainians flooded the internet with their info war in the early days of the war and basically set the narrative. Russians are trying hard to reset it.

Putin bad, great reset worse.

This is just a repeat of the Crimean War. Russia is barbaric but the "civilized" West just as murderous in it's own way.

The people that exploited China would love to exploit Russian resources and have been trying for three hundred years. Russia is a tough nut to crack. It has it's own cultural structure and that includes an ever changing power structure. The irony is the more it changes the more it stays the same. Stalin replaces the tsar, Putin replaces Stalin. The nobility is replaced by the party and now by oligarchs.

People think the modern world is so much different but we in the West are just returning to historical norms. There was short period after WWII when the elites having been shaken by the near disaster of socialist Nazis gave average people a fair deal and the middle class exploded. It didn't help that a still largely rural and independent U.S. population, steeped in frontier tradition had risen to prominence.

Yeah I wouldn't trust anything on face value that is reported by our incestuous corporate main stream Western Media. Much of it is pure Ukrainian propaganda taken verbatim without verification by the same mindless MSM.
I'm expecting soon to hear reports of Russians eating Ukrainian babies! Also I believe and suggest that the main reason that the Russian military are "bombing cities" is that they would be taking out buildings in which elements of the Ukrainian military are taking shelter from which to engage their invaders. There have been some reports they are (in some cases) using civilian areas as shields for their advantage. There are some ruthless soldiers on the Ukrainian side as well!
It's normal Russian practice never to stop fighting until the peace negotiations are agreed upon and formalised by both sides. Another thing to appreciate is that Russia actually has the fire-power to level and completely reduce all the cities to complete rubble if it wanted to. Reports that Russia could be ultimately defeated by Ukraine ( short of a nuclear intervention by the west ) is propaganda BS..

Being the reasonable person that you are, but I am not certain of the veracity of your facts, do you suppose, were you a person in the position where you could reason with Putin, that you could negotiate a peace or even convince him to end the carnage? Do you feel that all the information you currently have could convince him?