• irmoz@reddthat.com
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      10 months ago

      At this point? There’s probably no way he’ll end it peacefully. But peace, in my mind, means the war ending, and the only acceptable way, that will bring actual peace, is for Russia to give up or be defeated.

      Wishing for peace doesn’t mean I’m asking for each side to join hands and sing kumbaya.

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        10 months ago

        Yes war is hell, people die, families are torn apart, parents burry their children. Putin started this war, he didn’t have to and he could stop it with a word but he doesn’t. He keeps doubling down. It’s not that no one wants peace. Everyone wants peace. What they each want to negotiate for peace is incompatible with the other. Ukraine wants it’s land and sovereignty back. Putin’s regime wants that land and sovereignty over Ukraine. There’s nothing to negotiate for when your goals are so incompatible. There’s nothing to negotiate for when your land is occupied. There’s nothing to negotiate for when your opponent will only use that opportunity to come back stronger than before. If somehow Putin could offer something impossible that would prevent Russia from ever invading Ukraine again then MAYBE there can be a peace and that’s probably Putin’s head on a platter.

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            10 months ago

            I would love that to be true, I wish it was possible to stop Putin without blowing up half of Europe and threatening the rest of the world. I sincerely wish you were right, but that’s not the world we live in right now.