This isn't a suggestion, its a prompt. If this isn't the solution to end the killing, what is? Do you have an answer? What should Ukraine negotiate for?
what? they should accept the Russian offers to negotiate for a settlement and actually go to talks. after that, they should abide by the terms of the agreement, unlike the last several times.
As mentioned, Russia has a much longer history of violating agreements on Ukrainian borders.
what are you talking about? over the past 10 years, it's been Ukraine violating the accords, ever since the Maidan coup. I'm not saying there weren't also violations by the separatist factions but those have been tit-for-tat actions in response to shelling.
And anyway what does Ukraine get from negotiations that it wouldn't get from Russian withdrawal?
an immediate cease fire that doesn't require a winning a war they're never going to win?
Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation
The Budapest Memorandum
The Sochi Accords
Treaty on the Russia-Ukraine State Border
The Minsk Agreement
The Second Minsk Agreement
Which of these was violated by Ukraine, and in what way?
A ceasefire in exchange for what? What does Ukraine give up for a ceasefire? What terms of a peace treaty do you think are benificial to the people of Ukraine?
What terms of a peace treaty do you think are benificial to the people of Ukraine?
What's best for the Ukraine?
Neutrality and recognition of Novorossiya in exchange for an end to hostilities.
or
Neutrality and recognition of Novorossiya in exchange for an end to hostilities, after a couple of years and a couple of hundred thousand dead.
Those are the realistic options. There's no probable scenario in which the Kiev government is able to conquer all of Novorossiya, genocide the Russian-speaking population, extradite Putin to the Hague, join NATO, the EU and get a pony. The only thing the west has to offer the Ukrainian people is more suffering.
Russia has a much longer history of violating agreements on Ukrainian borders. Why would this time be different?
Oh, please. The West's history of breaking agreements goes back way further. Merkel, Poroshenko, and others actively boasted about how the Minsk Agreements were designed to buy Ukraine time to re-arm, and weren't serious attempts at peace. There's something like two centuries of Western countries breaking promises made to everybody and everyone. Russia has no reason to negotiate with the West anymore because they are obviously completely unwilling to keep their promises.
Ukraine is the one making peace impossible. They are the ones that demand total withdrawal of Russia before the peace negotiations can even begin. That is absurd. You aren't stupid, so you also know that's absurd. Everybody who wasn't born yesterday knows that this will never happen, because then Russia will give up its leverage that cost it thousands of lives to obtain. A demand for peace with terms that are hilariously absurd is, effectively, a demand for war.
The absolute minimum that Ukraine must do is give up its claims over Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, and never join NATO. This is the bedrock, the non-negotiable foundation. From this point on, it's a give-and-take. Russia may give up any objections to Ukraine joining the EU, or purging some of its Nazi elements. We shall see. Ukraine's position gets worse and worse the more of its military is degraded as it loses leverage, so perhaps the concept of a "peace negotiation" might be a pipe dream as there will be nothing left of the Ukrainian government with which to negotiate peace, or Russia will simply be dictating terms. If Ukraine made peace earlier, hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive, they would have more leverage, and the country would be in a better position for the future.
Alas, according to the West and western liberals, they must all die, to the last Ukrainian, for some abstract notion of "sticking it to the man in the Kremlin!" or "freedom and democracy" or "anti-authoritarianism". Truly showing us communists who cares about Ukrainian lives.
do you have a compilation of sources regarding these treaties? it's a beast to search for as NATO justifications dominate the search results and I don't want to reply with disinfo.
The very first term was Minsk 1 then Minsk 2, they could've walked away with giving more autonomy to those two oblasts but they didn't. Russia invades and is close to their capital, this proposal would've been 'No NATO, and Russia takes Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts from them. Since then Russia decided to add 2 more.
I know that you guys love fallacies so here's one it's called the sunk-cost fallacy.
If this war is following the same trajectory then Russia will add two more oblasts to their new demands, and so on and so on. Ukraine is not winning, and since they are entirely dependant on foreign help they will only grow weaker and weaker. Ukraine should've just from a purely self preservation point of view accepted russian terms. The people should demand that the government accept those terms because all that is currently happening is that more people get thrown into a meatgrinder but I guess you know sanctity of nations and all that.
I literally just said that Ukraine doesn't have to surrender to all Russian terms because they still have leverage. They had more leverage last autumn and could have negotiated for still controlling Kherson and Zaporozhye, but then decided to keep going. They will have less and less leverage as time goes by, until at the end of the war when they will have to surrender to all Russian terms. This insistence on Ukraine never surrendering, never negotiating bEcAuSe RuSsIa ShOuLd ReTrEaT fIrSt, as if that's how any war in human history has ever worked, is what is damaging Ukraine more.
This isn't a suggestion, its a prompt. If this isn't the solution to end the killing, what is? Do you have an answer? What should Ukraine negotiate for?
an end to the fighting
How? There are many ways to do that.
Whats your actual suggestion that Ukraine shoule negotiate for?
what? they should accept the Russian offers to negotiate for a settlement and actually go to talks. after that, they should abide by the terms of the agreement, unlike the last several times.
As mentioned, Russia has a much longer history of violating agreements on Ukrainian borders. Why would this time be different?
And anyway what does Ukraine get from negotiations that it wouldn't get from Russian withdrawal?
what are you talking about? over the past 10 years, it's been Ukraine violating the accords, ever since the Maidan coup. I'm not saying there weren't also violations by the separatist factions but those have been tit-for-tat actions in response to shelling.
an immediate cease fire that doesn't require a winning a war they're never going to win?
Which of these was violated by Ukraine, and in what way?
A ceasefire in exchange for what? What does Ukraine give up for a ceasefire? What terms of a peace treaty do you think are benificial to the people of Ukraine?
What's best for the Ukraine?
Neutrality and recognition of Novorossiya in exchange for an end to hostilities.
or
Neutrality and recognition of Novorossiya in exchange for an end to hostilities, after a couple of years and a couple of hundred thousand dead.
Those are the realistic options. There's no probable scenario in which the Kiev government is able to conquer all of Novorossiya, genocide the Russian-speaking population, extradite Putin to the Hague, join NATO, the EU and get a pony. The only thing the west has to offer the Ukrainian people is more suffering.
Oh, please. The West's history of breaking agreements goes back way further. Merkel, Poroshenko, and others actively boasted about how the Minsk Agreements were designed to buy Ukraine time to re-arm, and weren't serious attempts at peace. There's something like two centuries of Western countries breaking promises made to everybody and everyone. Russia has no reason to negotiate with the West anymore because they are obviously completely unwilling to keep their promises.
Ukraine is the one making peace impossible. They are the ones that demand total withdrawal of Russia before the peace negotiations can even begin. That is absurd. You aren't stupid, so you also know that's absurd. Everybody who wasn't born yesterday knows that this will never happen, because then Russia will give up its leverage that cost it thousands of lives to obtain. A demand for peace with terms that are hilariously absurd is, effectively, a demand for war.
The absolute minimum that Ukraine must do is give up its claims over Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, and never join NATO. This is the bedrock, the non-negotiable foundation. From this point on, it's a give-and-take. Russia may give up any objections to Ukraine joining the EU, or purging some of its Nazi elements. We shall see. Ukraine's position gets worse and worse the more of its military is degraded as it loses leverage, so perhaps the concept of a "peace negotiation" might be a pipe dream as there will be nothing left of the Ukrainian government with which to negotiate peace, or Russia will simply be dictating terms. If Ukraine made peace earlier, hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive, they would have more leverage, and the country would be in a better position for the future.
Alas, according to the West and western liberals, they must all die, to the last Ukrainian, for some abstract notion of "sticking it to the man in the Kremlin!" or "freedom and democracy" or "anti-authoritarianism". Truly showing us communists who cares about Ukrainian lives.
do you have a compilation of sources regarding these treaties? it's a beast to search for as NATO justifications dominate the search results and I don't want to reply with disinfo.
So, the negotiation you think Ukraine should enter in to is a surrender to all Russian terms?
The very first term was Minsk 1 then Minsk 2, they could've walked away with giving more autonomy to those two oblasts but they didn't. Russia invades and is close to their capital, this proposal would've been 'No NATO, and Russia takes Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts from them. Since then Russia decided to add 2 more.
I know that you guys love fallacies so here's one it's called the sunk-cost fallacy.
If this war is following the same trajectory then Russia will add two more oblasts to their new demands, and so on and so on. Ukraine is not winning, and since they are entirely dependant on foreign help they will only grow weaker and weaker. Ukraine should've just from a purely self preservation point of view accepted russian terms. The people should demand that the government accept those terms because all that is currently happening is that more people get thrown into a meatgrinder but I guess you know sanctity of nations and all that.
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I literally just said that Ukraine doesn't have to surrender to all Russian terms because they still have leverage. They had more leverage last autumn and could have negotiated for still controlling Kherson and Zaporozhye, but then decided to keep going. They will have less and less leverage as time goes by, until at the end of the war when they will have to surrender to all Russian terms. This insistence on Ukraine never surrendering, never negotiating bEcAuSe RuSsIa ShOuLd ReTrEaT fIrSt, as if that's how any war in human history has ever worked, is what is damaging Ukraine more.
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