Instead of the Russian government, I believe this question should have been pondered harder by the Ukrainian state starting in 2014. They've been given about a hundred different outs in the past 8 years alone.
One party to this conflict has been murdering civilians en masse after repeated generous peace offers. It is not Russia.
"Russia can just leave" is too unrealistic to even make it into a Grimm brothers fairytale. It is an untenable position: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/799504
By that same logic Russia could just leave right? Why does there "need to be" war at all?
Ukraine has been leading a genocide of ethnic Russians in the Donbas for years, and they've been getting far too friendly with NATO.
The war is happening because Ukraine couldn't keep to treaties, and took a hard turn towards ethno-nationalism.
The war isn't happening because Russia invaded, it's happening because NATO & Ukraine forced the issue.
Instead of the Russian government, I believe this question should have been pondered harder by the Ukrainian state starting in 2014. They've been given about a hundred different outs in the past 8 years alone.
One party to this conflict has been murdering civilians en masse after repeated generous peace offers. It is not Russia.
"Russia can just leave" is too unrealistic to even make it into a Grimm brothers fairytale. It is an untenable position: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/799504
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