How will the Ukraine-Russian Conflict End?  If you don't agree with the poll choices - add your own choice and comments in the comments.  Game on!  Let the party begin.....

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Hopefully it won't end, and will drag EU economies down for their ignorance and arrogance.  Z will continue being the dictator that he is, and keep building his bank account, as UA suffers for all the silliness that they've allow to happen to themselves.

 

Up the Revolution ... take back control of your govt, and end it now.

I suspect that the fighting will die down, and there will be a de facto ceasefire, perhaps an armistice, which will leave Russia in control of the territory it has managed to take. Both sides will have fought each other to a standstill.

 

The Russian meatgrinder only works as long as there is a steady supply of meat to feed it, and of course an economy sufficiently robust to turn it. Both seem somewhat doubtful. Ukraine is also being bled dry, but have solid economic and logistical support from Europe, on the Russian side such economic and logistical support seems much more ramshackle. Don't underestimate the fact that Ukraine feels and sees itself as far more European than Russian. They almost certainly will end up economically alligned with the EU and that will bring with it some sort of NATO security guarantee, which will underpin European efforts to rebuild their economy. With security guarantees they will re-align to the west, trade, (in particular agricultural produce) culturally, politically and militarily. The cease fire line will probably become something like the DMZ/border between North and South Korea.

 

The USA will cease to be relevant - Trump has declared his hand for Putin and will be ignored by Europe. If he stamps his feet and pulls out of NATO then the USA will lose its forward basing for air and naval operations in the Middle East and Africa.

 

 

Maybe add this option;

 

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Ukraine and Russia will accept a EU backed "peace treaty" that calls for an immediate cease-fire and leaves the fighting at a Line of Contact. Territorial issues and other items will be settled in the future that heavily favours Ukraine through negotiation with the former breakaway Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, resulting in the formation of the Special Autonomous Region of Yusovo, in honour of John Hughes, the Welshman who established industry in the area (enabling a fresh start for the fractious and heavily damaged Republics, but a nod to their Pre-Communist heritage). No meaningful negotiation can occur with the Russian Federation, because of its dissolution during the 2027 Blue Revolution, which sees most of the surviving members of the former Russian government being arrested by the Muscovy Republic Veterans of the SMO Committee, and a special War Crimes tribunal is convened. Sergey Lavrov is found drunk and ranting in Gorky Park, but is left alone as its clear he wishes to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a Buddhist Monk in Laos, after he gets his back tatooed. Crimea comes under de facto control of the Ukrainian Marines, following ships of the former Russian Federation retreating to their home ports (the new Circassian Republic or littoral vessals making the short trip over to the Duchy of Krasnador), or are scuttled in the Sea of Azov. Rostov-on-Don is the capital of the new Kingdom of Chernozemye following the heroic return of a famous Youtuber to his home city, and have no expansionist designs, but do request continued freedom of access to the terrific Crimean beaches that their Youtuber Elected King once did a review on.

 

 

https://www.freenationsrf.org/en

 

https://www.freenationsrf.org/en/news-posts/russia-on-the-brink-of-fragmentation-2025