As of this date the Russian Chiefs-Of-Staff have stated they are winning the battle to take their only goal. Depending on the translation they either said they will control the eastern part of Ukraine or control the Donbas region which isn’t much more than the areas they had by supporting a rebellion area.

            This is a face saving stance which the Ukrainians President and many of the common people say is unacceptable. Putin should not get a single foot of their country and they will fight to force them out. That decision is up to the Ukrainians.

            The rest of the world and Europe in particular will need to make a decision. After the war is over when will the sanctions be dropped? The Russians have literally destroyed many towns and cities. The infrastructure has also been destroyed. The cost to rebuild will be trillions of dollars and take years. Since this war was entirely caused by Putin and his military, they should pay for the rebuild.

            How about this idea? Sanctions having to do with exporting oil and gas should be eased so the oil and gas can be sold. Instead of the Russians getting all the payments, they get only 15 percent and the other 85 percent will go to the fund to pay for those repairs. This will continue until Ukraine is back to pre-war condition. Otherwise the rest of the wealthy state will have to pay and Russia gets off without paying for what was destroyed during the war.