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No, it does not magic more manpower out of thin air. As you said, though, it is a war of attrition. It cuts down the attrition. That matters, because right now Russia remains unable to sweep through Ukraine and is having to offer more and more to offset its own attrition. Tank depots are running dry. Inflation is spiking. Ukraine gets away with its economy being fucked becase Europe is propping it up with funding.
Giving up territory now without meaningful security guarantees does nothing to prevent Russia from coming back for more later. Like how it took Crimea in 2014 and came back for more. Like what it did in Chechnya. Like what it did in Georgia. Russia got away with it once, it did it again. Giving up a portion of Ukrainian territory without actual backup isn't just that, it's surrendering entirely to being a Russian puppet state, because if Ukraine does anything against Russia's interests then Russia just comes back for more.
Tell me, how much of your own country would you give up to an invader that acts like that? What if it was the part you lived in?
If it was so obvious then Russia obviously knows too and it should just be explicit. Ukraine can't rely on implications here. The Budapest memorandum clearly wasn't good enough.
By what means? More bloodshed? Or are you hoping the invader just decides to return it out of the goodness of their own heart?
Considering the long history of Russification in Russia's territories, life doesn't just get to go on and family and friends are not all alive and well.
Sounds like it matters who's in charge then, doesn't it?
How do you not realise how contradictory what you're saying is?
Calling out your hypocrisy doesn't mean your answers were on point. I'm sorry your hypocrisy is sad, maybe try not to be a hypocrite next time.
Omg! So can I! Not deflecting. Haha. I bet you're not a sheep, you're part of the do your own research crowd, praising trump and putin. Lol.
Whoa! What ad hominem? I said you weren't a sheep doing your own research, is that insulting? I'm sorry you are a sheep. Is that better?
I would, but I'm only expending the same amount thought capacity on the matter that the average fascist support can conjur in a week.
The contradiction is you insisting that the ruling government doesn't matter while also stating that it can treat an ethnicity like shit. The only way that's not a contradiction is if you think it doesn't matter if the government treats an ethnicity like shit, and if you thought that then you wouldn't have brought up Ukraine's Romanians.
Putin's own writing shows that he doesn't think that the Ukranian nationality is real, so for Ukraine as a nation (and I mean a nation as in "a distinct people" here, not "a state" or "a country") yes, it absolutely is an existential threat.
I haven't deflected a damn thing. You started the conversation by talking about Ukraine's manpower shortage, and I replied to that. I've replied thoroughly to everything else you brought up up until you started doing the internal contradictions, at which point there is no point in me trying to reply.
No, I don't. I still don't think that those abuses mean that we should abandon all of Ukraine. In fact, if Ukraine got the support it needed, I bet those violations would stop right away as well, because it wouldn't be so desperate for soldiers any more. Same goes for the consular services.