I'm all for it. Otherwise Russia learns nothing. Also more economic sanctions and keep them going just as long as they were fighting before retreat. Punish putin hard.

Here's a good joke on the subject:

Putin dies an predictably goes to hell. However, his whining annoys Satan who, after a few years, tells him to go back to Moscow and get some goddamn closure. Putin is suddenly back in a shiny modern Moscow, clean, orderly, everyone is happy. He goes to a bar and orders a vodka then asks the barman how things are going since the end of the Ukrainian war. The barman says that things are great, the country is once again a leading world power, their military is highly respected and the economy is the strongest it's ever been! Putin thinks that this is great and asks how much for the drink. The answer? Three hryvnia.

I mean what Russia needs is a deep change of regime and mentality.

Frankly, I doubt that reducing the country to ashes or close, would do that, on the contrary: the more a population feels threatened and vulnerable, the more it gathers around it and refuses to accept change.

A much smarter move would be on the contrary to be specifically kind to russians, why not by offering them asylum, papers, food, etc. Show them that their government is the problem, and that they have no reason to want war.

If they have military dominance, start forcing open passages within russian territory, protecting anyone who wants to escape. And obviously, be genuine about it, and do try to actually give them a proper life, don't start packing them in refugee camps and telling them to shut up.

That would weaken much more the russian government, make it much easier to trigger a regime change, and whoever escaped and wants to go back to Russia can, once the situation improves.

Feels much better than to just push Putin to force-recruit all civilians and send them to their deaths, with the ones not fighting starving to death instead.

Keep going, or at least credibly threaten to, russia will not back down otherwise.

Once russia stops their offensive then ok, but then there is the issue that russia can barely sustain an offensive anymore and is resorting to terrorism/lobbing bombs at Ukrainian civilian centers from behind their devastated frontlines.

Yes you can get really good at shooting them down, but at a certain point you do need to punch russia in the face as there is no other way to stop it.

I don't think Ukraine occupying parts of russia long term would be a good idea, it would create a huge opening for world powers to backstab Ukraine by saying that the war is all relative now since both sides are taking territory blah blah blah but that isn't my choice to make.

Never overextend your supply lines and get yourself encircled.

Instead of directly marching into the Russian Federation, I'd home that nations in the area could clean out other Russian infestations like in Transistria in Moldova, South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.

No. I think the Ukrainian people are tired of war, and when you become an existential threat to a nuclear power things get really messy.

Putin is old, and if Russia loses the war it's likely there will be a coup. Either way Putin won't be around when Russia has recovered it's military strength enough to attack anyone.

If Ukraine recovers all of it's territory and becomes part of NATO, there's no chance Russia can win. If they couldn't win with lukewarm support (at best) for Ukraine from NATO countries, they wouldn't dare attack Ukraine when there would a full military response from the rest of NATO.

Continuing the war after Ukraine recovered all of it's territory would just be throwing away lives needlessly.

Ukraine is making massive headway against Russia right now. Putin’s forces are crumbling all over the front line.

Where are you getting this from?
I've searched through multiple news sources on the war and can find nothing like this.

I thought they had some russian soil already.

The only way to beat/conquer the Russian identity is to exhaust it. History has not found a way of doing this. As yet.

Russians who go abroad and/or spend a lot of time among people in the West come to see a different way; one which they often and ultimately embrace, only to never return to their home country.

But we all know that 'travel' is not a cure for identity crisis. People travel and often learn nothing. Even those in the West.

The thing that brought the Russian culture to overthrow the Czarist rule was not a magical political theory that was absolutely amazing, but cruel oppression and ignorant government institutions for years on end, as they watched a burgeoning elite embrace and benefit from European values. Revolution often finds merely convenient means and theories, as an escape route.

If we assume the Czarist impulse which bled into the Soviet system will never be satiated in its hunger for expansion, all we can do is what one's older, wiser brother does to its enraged younger brother: put your hand on his forehead, extend your arm, and let him swing away.

Otherwise you have to beat him to a pulp. But usually younger brothers don't have nuclear arsenals.

Yea just like palestinians has the right to kick all the invaders