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In reply to the discussion: Breaking - the US has called for an immediate cease fire in Gaza [View all]sarisataka
(19,246 posts)the likely outcome would be the eastern Oblasts would now be Russian territory, Zelensky would be in prison or dead and a puppet of Putin would tule in Kyiv. Alternately 'the Ukraine' would again be a province of the Russian empire.
The future hopes for peace would involve an emboldened Russia sitting at the borders of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
A bit of history on the Second Sino-Japanese War. After provoking the Marco Polo Bridge incident to justify an invasion in July of 1937, Japan advanced, seizing the capital Nanjing in December of the same year. After the city fell, the Japanese soldiers went on a six week spree of murder and rape. Since there was no documentation the estimates vary widely. In that time 40-300,000 people were killed and 20-80,000 women raped.
It doesn't require a nuclear weapon to kill masses of people. Bayonets work just as well, it only takes longer.