People get emotional about Russia while ignoring the repeated blunders explained by you, Arabi Souri, throughout the past 10 years, and by so many others like Stefan here, each of those blunders was deadly enough to cause thousands of unnecessary deaths, suffering, and displacement, including among the Russians who Mr. Putin and his leadership want to protect. Waiting for your enemy, especially when your enemy is genocidal, to get back to their senses is not a strategy while they gain the battles and you might eventually win the war but with the highest unnecessary prices: Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014, Libya 2011, Syria from 2011 through 2025, Armenia ongoing, and so on..