The state of the Russian Federation lost the war he had begun. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are still resting in the north and south of Ukraine, but the collapse on one or another section of the front is inevitable. In the rapid waste of Russian troops from Balaklia, it is clear that they are no longer fighting for victory, but in order to avoid or delay the moment of public shame - that is, the environment of large military formations.

The war in the form in which it is now in Ukraine is disgusted by the political style of the President of the Russian Federation. He used to call himself a "pharmacy", because he perfectly mastered two tricks. To pull time, wait, literally - to hesitate. And to rule, without making final decisions, putting them off, mixing the untys, distributing to all sisters in earrings. But the war is ultimately unambiguous. To go there or. Victory or defeat.

The discussion regarding the possibility of a ban on the issuance of Schengen visas for Russian citizens is in a completely wrong direction. In fact, we should not talk about the right of Russian citizens to visit European countries, including for tourist purposes, but about Europe’s right to defense and measures that establish a direct political and legal connection between citizens and the actions of the state whose citizens they are.

The war that cannot be stopped, which cannot be won and which cannot be completed at least with a truce, has two outcomes. The first is the annihilation of one of the warring parties, that is, one of the political regimes, an aggressor or victim. The second is the asymmetry of military force. That is, the use of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, the war of the 21st century will most likely end in such a nuclear way. Such a war can be Russian-Ukrainian.

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Russian conversations about the war, even if they are conducted from the position of recognition of Russia by the aggressor, leading an inhuman war, are closed to themselves. They have a little space for Ukraine, everything else is chewing out of guilt, responsibility and moral superiority of those who left, or those who remained.

The military situation in Ukraine, as experts understand it, has come to a dead end for Russia. Analysts converge in the fact that the RF Armed Forces before the fall have enough strength for only one, and that is not decisive, blow in the Donbass. The speedy capture of Slavyansk, under an even greater question, is in question - access to the administrative borders of the Donetsk region of Ukraine. The aggressor seems to be dried up, although so far it has not yet been broken.

Inside Russia, as far as one can understand from the outside, among intellectuals who consider it possible to maintain a leading war in one way or another, fierce disputes are undergoing about what new main ideology this state needs. The fears that such an ideology will soon appear also sound in conversations with those representatives of the intelligentsia who do not support the war, although they do not oppose it openly. Arguments explaining why ideology is needed are similar in both camps.

The intermediate results of war unleashed in Ukraine are already visible. Russia will still lie in the so-called DPR and, possibly, in order to establish some kind of management in the already occupied territories in the south and east of Ukraine, will conduct limited mobilization within the country. But the first round of aggressive war seems to end.

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According to the resolution 3314 (XXIX) of the UN General Assembly of December 14, 1974, aggression is any military attack on another state that is not a response. Simply put, no one has the right to attack first. In 2014, the vast majority of Russian citizens decided that in connection with the special politically circumstances, the actions of the Russian army in Crimea were justified. History showed that we were wrong. Aggression is always aggression.

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