The Russian strategy here is to prevent Georgia, The Ukraine and...

The Russian strategy here is to prevent Georgia, The Ukraine and Moldova
from joining NATO by causing border/territory disputes which means they
are disqualified from joining NATO and to date that strategy has worked
albeit at enormous cost to Russia not to mention the Ukraine.

So unless NATO can dislodge Russia from all 3 territories or change
its border dispute prerequisite for applicant countries, then Russia
has succeeded in its strategy.

That's the bottom line mate.

To claim that Russia wants anything more than precluding NATO's further
creep around the Black Sea is merely speculation, IMO.

The Ukraine is fast running out of troops to sustain this war via the status quo battlefield tactics;
hence the need to up the anti by using US/Nato long range missiles to
attack Russian population centres and Russian infrastructure.

I guess the escalated tactics by both sides will become evident over this NH summer.

Nigel Farage:


(Source: indépendant.com.uk):

If the conservatives hold on to power in the UK it will have to be in coalition
with Nigel Farage's Reform UK party whose loose policy on the Ukraine war
tends strongly towards a negotiated settlement

https://theconversation.com/has-reform-really-overtaken-the-tories-in-the-polls-and-does-that-mean-it-could-beat-them-on-july-4-232234