This is an interesting deployment of your customer service de-escalation skill set. I answered with concrete positive proof your question about whether the western coalition has the resources to provide Zaluzhny's wish list. You then ignore the evidence and instead practiced evidence-free remote psychological diagnosis, which is banned by the American Psychiatric Association. This kind of attack mode, psychologizing the opponent, is typical of those whose arguments have had all intellectual legs to stand on cut off.
The idea that I have blood lust for Russia when I've studied Russian history for half a century, speak the language, learning my first full sentence in it from my paternal grandmother, married the language's dictionary and been there four times is beyond absurd.
Read this BKean story about watching the iconic Soviet holiday classic film, The Irony of Fate, which I've seen many times. He watched it again, invited by two Ukrainian refugee women in Austria. In this story you can glimpse a future reconciliation scenario, IF a deimperialized Russian people admit the truth of what they've done, as the Germans did: https://medium.com/@brian-kean/russias-war-in-ukraine-is-a-twist-of-fate-b688a2956cfd
From the story:
"There was no anger toward Russians despite having every reason in the world to hate Russia and Russians. These two women in their love for the traditions of the Soviet past, in their nostalgic need to watch the “Irony of Fate,” clearly and concisely demonstrate two things.
The first is just how wrong Putin is in his assessment that Ukrainians hate Russians. I am sure he doesn’t believe that but he needed that lie for his narrative. The second thing is just how misdeveloped the Russian brain has become over the past 20 years.
Ukrainians didn’t have even the faintest hint of dislike for Russians before February 23rd because Ukrainians for the past 20 years have, for the most part, been privy to an open, free and modern flow of information. They have not relied only on the lies of the Kremlin.
Russians, however, have been not been privy to information or truth for the past 20 years and so that is why when Putin said, “They hate us,” the vast majority just accepted that lie without flinching. They accepted it as if it were just another part of being Russian — someone hates us because we are the greatest.
As the women laughed and the three of us recalled the wonderful nostalgia of that film, my wife is younger and so feels it less, I raised a shot of vodka and we toasted to the strength of the Ukrainian people.
And then one of the women added to the toast, “Let’s not forget about the strength Russians will need to remember that we are their eternal friends.”
She left me speechless.
I have no more blood lust for Russia and Russians than this woman.
After this war that's finally a war in Putin's words, reconciliation will come when a deimperialized Russian state and people look in the mirror and see what's really there. The Germans did starting in the late 1960s and 1970s. and the French and Germans reconciled. The Japanese refused to look in the mirror, visited the Yasukuni shrine's Class A war criminal graves instead, and never fully reconciled with their Korean, Chinese and Indonesian and Filipino neighbors. This difference is well-documented in Ian Buruma's The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan.
Now that the Germans are shipping Leopards and the Americans Bradleys and Patriots to Ukraine, the end of this war comes closer.
You should hope that a post-Putin decolonized Russia will have its own version of the rebellious children of Germany's generation of 1968 who asked what did you do in the war daddy?--and Confronting the truth is essential for the reconciliation that benefits all sides, as it was in South Africa and Chile.
But the sine qua non of this process is Russia admitting the truth and accepting accountability proportionate to the scale of the crimes committed: war crimes trials, reparations financed by oil and gas revenues. For lessons how to do this the Russians should ask the Germans, but not the Japanese.
