How can Ukraine and Russia resolve their conflicts?

War. War never changes

It might not matter. With the new developments in Syria Russia may soon face an uncomfortable choice of pursuing the fruitless war in Ukraine and lose Assad as an ally, or else end the war in Ukraine and justify that by the need to help our Assad. It’s sometihng the Kremlin can point to as an excuse for their choice of action and it could be Russians, who are also tired of the war in Ukraine, would accept that.

Both countries are nearing the end of their respective strength. Russia just committed the bulk of their armored farces to attack the Ukrainian saillent at Kursk. The results are a little less spectacular than when Nazis tried the same in the same area 81 years ago, marginal gains and irreplacable losses. Some reports say Russians actually ran out of available armor around Kursk and are now relying on pure infantry assaults.

I’m wondering about attachment and transference with the therapist and the idea of escape and fantasy? How much do you think your strong feelings, constant thoughts, desires to be with your therapist are a way to escape from your present life? I wonder if the transference serves another purpose than to show us our wounds and/or past experiences, but is a present coping strategy for managing what we don’t want to face (even if unconsciously) in the present—-current relationships, life circumstances, etc. Can anyone relate to this concept of escape in relation to their therapy relationship? How does this play out for you?

We’ll see. But right now it seems as if the war could realistically burn itself out. What follows after is anyones’ guess though.

As of late 2024 it looks like it will end with mutual exhaustion.

Russian armored vehicle storage was epic and bottomless and it ran out. They still have some tanks and mobile artillery sure, but by now it’s all beyond economic repair. It takes more money to restore these old vehicles than it would to build new ones. Russians are still doing it, because their industrial capacity to build new vehicles is overextended and new capacity is not forthcoming. Russia is also running out of money, as the recent collapse in the value of the rubble indicates.

Why does Russia seem so angry over the US and UK missile strikes in Ukraine?

Ukraine is not in particularily great shape either, although perhaps better than is expected of a country that waged a war of attrition for three years against a neighbor four times their own size. How relevant are the recent studies of public opinion in Ukraine that the country should compromise with Russia is debatable, but it’s clear the enthusiasm to win the war no matter what is wearing off. Trumpistani proposal to end the war in Ukraine may actually be acceptable to a majority of Ukrainians, although I’m not sure if it would fly with Russia.