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If there isn’t going to be any peace discussions from Ukraine … how does this ever end?
With Russia packing up their shit and going back to the pre 2014 borders.
So it doesn't end?
Edit: barring NATO rolling in and starting WW3 that's clearly not gonna happen. So what's next?
Why are you arguing for Ukraine to forgive and forget the rapes and murders and to give up parts off their country to the perpetrators rather than arguing for Russia to go back to Russia?
Clearly Russia isn't going to do that, no matter how much a bunch of nobodies argue for it online.
Which actually realistic path leads to less dead people?
Putin being killed by his own people for leading them to this catastrophe.
Negotiations don't exist for Russia, they are known for breaking all agreements anyways. Russia is not trustworthy in the slightest, they have never missed to prove that. You don't push the trigger on a loaded gun and hope for it to not fire. If you believe otherwise you desperately need to get out of you bubble and drink less Vodka.
Russian people killing Putin is the only way to end this sooner.
Putin-fanboys love to say “Ukraine needs to negotiate an end to this war” but like to forget that this war started because RuZZia shat on a treaty ensuring the sovereignty of Ukraine in exchange for their nuclear arms.
Clearly this bully isn't going to stop trying to take your lunch money. If you continue trying to defend yourself it's just going to lead to more fights and you getting hurt more. If you just give up your lunch money peacefully then it'll be better for everybody!
You can't just boil geopolitics down like that.
The longer this goes the more people die. We can't seem to stop Russia without plunging the world into more war....
The longer you keep fighting back, the more you will keep being hit. We can't seem to stop the bully without you getting hurt more, so just be a good little boy and hand over your lunch money peacefully. And when the bully demands the contents of your backpack, hand that over to avoid more bloodshed. And when he demands your hat, hand that over too. You don't want to keep getting hurt, do you?
Then russia suffers until they learn (so probably forever).
Ukraine has the will and the west has the means to make this a very painful lesson, maybe even Russians can learn this time.
By every account Russia has the manpower to outlast Ukraine in this. I'm sure whoever is left in Ukraine once NATO is done teaching Russia this "lesson" will be so glad to have been a part of this.
If you lay off the Kremlin propaganda for a minute you'll realize what a laughing stock they are to the real militaries in the world.
Wow.. you're delusional.
Bro, hand me some of that copium you’re having, seems like the strong kind!
You really been huffing that Russian propaganda, huh? It'll turn your brain to mush, you should really stop.
who knows, but maybe some progress will be made when more modern weapons can be fired from western F16's. It likely won't have a huge impact, but every little bit helps
So you think it’s all or nothing for Ukraine?
If someone invades your country and kills your countrymen you don't negotiate with them. You tell them to get the fuck out or we'll kill every one of you motherfuckers that decides to continue being on our land. Why? You going to advocate being like Chamberlain? Or Quisling? What do you suggest someone does if their country is invaded?
Do you think Russia will unconditionally surrender and stop fighting when Ukraine reaches the Russian border?
Do you think Ukraine is going to invade Russia after they push them to the border?
I don't think Ukraine is about to conquer Russia or capture Moscow, even if they wanted to or if we want them to.
Do you think Russia will unconditionally surrender and stop fighting when Ukraine reaches the Russian border?
I have no idea. Even if they don't, Ukraine just has to defend their territory, which they have proven more than capable of.
The only one party that can end this conflict is the aggressor.
A safety buffer zone of a few kilometers, on the Russian side, past the Ukrainian country, sounds reasonable. Depending on how far they still keep shooting.
More likely there will simply be no peace and they'll technically stay at war, with a huge minefield in between the two countries, until one of them runs out of money.
How do you show you've never heard of the war of the triple alliance or of Paraguay, without saying war of the triple alliance or Paraguay.
Weirdly specific
So we're fighting to the last Ukrainian then?
They are, mate. You act like the West is standing behind Ukraine threatening to shoot anyone that retreats. We're sending em guns and money, if they wanted to stop fighting they could make that decision tomorrow.
You don't negotiate with terrorists.
The UK negotiated with the IRA.
The US negotiated with the Japanese.
The allies negotiated with the Nazis.
I'm fine with the Japanese solution, which Russian cities should we delete?
The German solution seems awfully similar.
I'm fine with winning the lottery. That isn't likely either.
Ukraine doesn't have nukes, so the Japanese solution is off the table.
Ukraine isn't about to conquer Moscow, so the German solution isn't feasible either.
North Korea has nukes, you're honestly telling me ukraine, the ones who figured it out in the soviet union, can't figure it out too?
Ukraine is the smart remnant of the soviet union, Russia needs to surrender out of sheer terror.
I really don't like how often I see people ok with the idea of nuclear war. I like Fallout as much as the next person but I don't think it's an accurate representation of nuclear apocalypse.
I’m pretty sure the negotiations consisted on total surrender and heavy controls of power in the three cases, which Zelenskyy agrees on. Just giving more territories to Russia is not what they want. That would only mean a new offensive in a few years.
You know both these groups surrendered unconditionally, right?
That worked out really well lol
Literally yes. If they capitulate it's only a matter of time before Putin tries again, either by fomenting a revolution and installing another pro-Russia dictator, or restarting the war. This is a fight for the very survival of Ukraine.
Survival of human beings 👎
Survival of the nation 👍
Putin is trying to kill both. Those human beings deserve to live and they deserve a country too -- the country they are dying to defend.
I think them conscripts would rather do something other dying for their country. I know I would.
Have you ever read Catch-22? Yossarian likes to go on about how everybody is trying to kill him. If you're a Ukrainian soldier it's not just Putin who's out to kill you. It's your own government too, and apparently the average western lib on this very internet forum.
If you believe this why are you not advocating for the Russian conscripts who are forced to fight a madman’s war of aggression and territorial expansion? Like sympathizing for the Ukrainian troops forced to fight is fine but I think you fail to realize the alternative for them is to die at the hands of the Russian military.
Only one side here is engaged in a purely optional war of territorial expansion. And it isn’t “the west” or Ukraine.
Ukrainians would disagree; they're the ones to want to fight and if their government tried to give up, they'd throw them out and find someone willing to keep going
If they all want to fight so bad, why are the men not allowed to leave the country? Why has Zelensky recently announced a crackdown on draft dodging? Why are there so many videos of men getting dragged kicking and screaming into vans by military ~~recruiters~~ kidnappers?
Why is Putin waging a war of territorial ambition and spending innocent Russian blood to do it?
Your perspective here is backwards. One side could end this war immediately by calling back their armies and forfeiting their territorial ambitions. And it is not Ukraine.
Is this a serious question? The existence of exceptions doesn't negate the trend. The crackdown on draft dodging is part of Zelenskyy's anti corruption measures to bring Ukraine in line with EU and NATO standards. Do you think about your questions at all before asking them?
Either you give them land from which they can prepare their next attack or you show them that they're unable to take and hold land. So yeah. Pretty much.