Russia Says They Won't Overthrow Zelensky, Occupy Ukraine

(...) The second theory is that Putin wants “control of” or to “conquer” Ukraine. This theory, too, appears by now to be self-evidently false. Putin is not going to be able to conquer or control Ukraine. The Ukrainians are putting up too much resistance, as it’s emerged, fierce and brave. But more deeply than that, you don’t destroy a nation you want to control. You don’t bomb its neighbourhoods and destroy its infrastructure. You try to capture it with a minimum of damage. You wage a slow and patient war of attrition and encirclement and lay siege, even if takes months or years. But the Ukrainian Administration estimates that Russia has destroyed 202 schools, 34 hospitals, more than 1500 residential buildings. Entire areas lack electricity, running water, and heating.

You don’t turn a nation you want to control into Syria — what’s the point of controlling a destroyed one? There isn’t one, at least not for a nation like Russia. Maybe for a warlord in the Congo — but not in this context, for a relatively wealthy society like Russia. (...)

Russia Says They Won't Overthrow Zelensky, Occupy Ukraine

That's Builder convinced.