Russian President Vladimir Putin told the leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) on Wednesday that it was necessary to think about how to stop "the tragedy" of the war in Ukraine, some of his most placatory remarks to date about the conflict.
I'm honestly hesitant to post this here, but… the absolute ludicrosity compels me. How? How does he have the gall to say something like that? He ought to burst into flames on the spot.
Assassinated by whom? Isn't he the leader of Russia? or is there someone in the shadows always wanting war for Russia and if the president dont support war, he is then replaced by another Russian?
Where he's likely to be going with this is "war ends, but Russia gets to keep the territory they've illegally annexed". And that will not do. They stole Crimea; if they get to steal more, then they'll just be back again in a few years once they've licked their wounds. All territory must be returned to Ukraine, and then they can pay reparations and fuck off, and we'll welcome Ukraine into the EU and NATO so this shit never happens again.
Well that is the best of all worlds, I would settle for returning all Ukrainian citizens, leaving any Ukrainian land other than Crimea, and letting Ukraine join the EU & NATO.
There is real potential for Russia to lose Crimea at this point, and Ukraine hasn't had control of it in almost a decade, so their citizen's shouldn't be there at this point. I know it sucks to say give up Crimea, but for the sake of ending this war, and preventing any future war (EU/NATO membership), I don't think that is unreasonable at this point (of course, all matters are entirely up to Ukrainians, and anyone else has no right to make decisions regarding a concession - just my 2 cents, and I am plenty willing for my tax dollars to keep going to supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes).
im seeing experts on youtube explainjng how some are saying that its been a stalemate for so long with so many casualties.. neither side appears to have the stomach to scale up the money/weapons/political costs necessary to drastically change the math, so its likely time to negotiate something.. likely ukraine promises not to join the EU/NATO and the territories will be split somehow.
Russia is free to go the fuck home. Until then, I will continue to send money and I will implore my government to continue to send bullets to the Ukrainians defending their homes from the invader.
You should probably widen your media diet, there's active information warfare going on from both sides and their allies, a lot of misinformation and propaganda abound.
Besides, Ukraine not long ago did promise to remove their nukes in exchange for not guarantees of not being invaded by Russia.
Promises made by the same sitting head of state.
Makes it hard to trust any deal that isn't surrendering the country.