“The intent is to break up Russia.”
It would be nice if Russia simply stops this ruinous war. That would be a much more preferable result.
It was provoked by the West. The West tried to create the conditions to be able to bring Ukraine into NATO so that it’s estimated $14 or so trillion dollars could be controlled by the globalists. We aren’t the innocent party and Russia did not act unilaterally, but in response to what we were doing.