If war brings no benefits then why does war always happen? Although even the winning country will have losses, the spoils they gain are not small, so war is not completely useless to some people. Another thing is that we are ignoring countries that are not directly involved in the war but are benefiting a lot by selling weapons and lending money to the warring parties. They are people who lose almost nothing but gain huge profits. They are even the ones who create those wars, because they are the ones who get rich from selling weapons.
I guess people saying that war has totally no benefit have little knowledge about history. War has been part of the human civilization. Be it power, territorial, race, religious, and influence. The Russian invasion of Ukraine for example has huge benefits if successful. It's just that the Russians did not expect the war to continue this long. Nonetheless, it is still holding Ukrainian territories especially the Crimean peninsula which is a very strategic location in the Black Sea. The effects may not be reflected right away since there are human, structures, and financial losses but in the long term, it is mostly worth it. Just like when the Americans risked and declared war on the Mexicans.
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Russia has no benefits. More precisely, if the whole world once again turned a blind eye to Russian terrorism, then yes, there would be benefits.
But now Russia is “going to the bottom”, bombarding the Armed Forces of Ukraine with “meat assaults”, having already destroyed more than 50% of its “second army of the world”, its economy, demography, financial system, and having forever lost its partnership with an adequate world.
Crimea does not have any strategic significance - the Black Sea is a closed water area, the entry into which is controlled by a NATO member country, and the entire route “to the world” is also blocked by NATO countries. The only purpose of Crimea is the mental masturbation of the Kremlin Fuhrer, and a convenient place for continuing terrorist attacks on Ukraine.
After Russia's defeat, it will not be saved; there will be no Marshall Plans for it. It will become the world's "bottom" for decades and will pay reparations to all countries that previously suffered from it.