Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is their sovereign territory
The current situation is already a catastrophe as it is. The best possible outcome at this time is that this war is ended as soon as possible even when this means handing a few victory points to Russia. It is the only way at lot less Ukrainians will die and then I&#x27;m just ignoring the potential outcome of further escalation. Nothing the West is doing right now is working towards this outcome. We still seem to believe that at the end of the road there is some &#x27;win&#x27; against Russia with tolerable costs for ourselves. The economic sanctions just boomerang with a comparable net loss to the West. Then there&#x27;s millions of Ukrainian refugees who will need to be offered a somewhat humane existence in Europe at huge initial costs. The War in Syria already stretched Europe&#x27;s capability to absorb refugees to the limit. Ukraine has more than twice the number of citizens. The Western leaders has got to stop this pretense of &quot;we got this&quot; and &quot;we can hurt Russia more than it can hurt us&quot;. We don&#x27;t have this.