In looking at the pattern of Putin’s assault of Ukraine, he believes the Ukrainian people are the enemy. He has been fighting an intrusive war in the Donbas for years now. Never once was his troops being killed or attacked by civilians. The Ukrainian civilians are defending their HOMES and neighborhoods where they can. Defending the anode one lives in is vastly different than defending a country.
Vladimir Putin sees every Ukrainian as the enemy. Every one of them. There is no mistake in killing every one of them in his way of thinking.
Vladimir Putin is the master to his dogs of war and he is committing genocide because otherwise he would have to continually revisit the war over and over until the land was under control by Russia in order to reconstitute the Soviet Union.
The best way forward is to put the tightest economic sanctions on Russia so every damn Russian feels it, otherwise, adding sanctions incrementally will only allow for propaganda and getting used to impoverishment.
Putin plans to kill as many people as he wishes for getting in his way AND speaking shit about him. This war is not stopping without severe impoverishment of Russia. They deserve nothing short of that.
