So your version of deescalation is to let Russia keep what they took by force and leave the door open for more killing once people have lost interest in a few years time. Here's a spoiler, Russia aren't going to stop, no matter what you think the west should or shouldn't be doing to support Ukraine.
It's always amusing, if slightly irritating, when people try to tell those who disagree with them what they are really thinking.
You can always read what I've written across multiple threads if you want to know what I think.
Yeh we moved from cancer to leo and amazingly the number of Russian artillery attacks and deaths of ukrainians greatly diminished. Deescalation at its finest.
Not a lot of deescalation going on in the Mykolaiv/Kherson region at the moment, with the Ukrainian counteroffensive... imminent? Beginning? Ongoing?
Surely you're capable of offering a succinct answer to a straightforward question?
No, what I'm supposed to say is, yes, I think the invasion was justified and the Russians should stay there until they've conquered the whole of Ukraine. Then they should move westwards and occupy some more countries (this is clearly not possible when they can't even conquer eastern Ukraine, but you get nowhere without ambition.) This is what I want as what the world obviously needs is a lot more Putinism.
Stop prevaricating and answer the fucking question. I'm not interested in your incorrect assumptions about what you think I wanted to hear.
I wasn't necessarily talking about you.
Great. So now you'll answer the question?
I can only repeat what I say somewhere above, which is that if, for some strange reason, some people have developed a consuming interest in what I think on this matter, then it's all there on dozens of posts across a range of threads.
i think that matters have gone too far for such a simple if not simplistic solution to work. i don't know, for example, what safeguards the ukrainian authorities might offer to protect the populations who have been living under effective russian rule since 2014 or since earlier this year from reprisals or collective punishments or arbitrary punishments: it's certainly on the cards that quite a few ukrainians might feel somewhat vengeful towards anyone they thought had collaborated with the russians. and even people who'd minded their own business and had no dealings with the authorities but lived under the occupation governments for 8 years might be suspected of collaboration.
I'd just like you to give a straight answer to a perfectly reasonable question, but instead you're choosing to bluff and squirm around like a lying, two faced, gutless politician.
I'm not a politician, but I've long suspected that I am a gutless, two-faced liar.
He called for the UN to be “much more centre stage”, and suggested involving other international bodies such as the African Union or the League of Arab States if the UN were unable to help negotiate a ceasefire.
The statement follows fter an outcry from Ukrainians – including a member of Ukraine’s parliament – the letter disappeared from the website but the president has resisted a clamour to publicly disown the letter or clarify his views on it.
Predictions everybody might be able to agree are realistic. Or maybe not....
This 'prediction,' in particular, might disappoint a few on here:
'Ukraine has no means of effective conventional counterattack, while guerrilla raids are an optimistic way to precipitate a Russian collapse
Ukraine would like to retake Kherson, on the west of the Dnieper river, but a senior administration figure admitted in private that “we do not have enough capacity to push them back”. Kyiv has shifted its strategy to mounting long-range missile attacks and daring special forces raids on Russian bases deep behind the frontlines.
The key presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said the aim was to “create chaos within the Russian forces”, but while this will blunt the invader’s effectiveness, it is not likely it will lead to invaders collapsing in on themselves and voluntarily conceding Kherson, as some Ukrainian officials have hoped.'
Five predictions for the next six months in the war in Ukraine
Six months to the day since the start of the Russian invasion, here is what to expect for the next six monthswww.theguardian.com
The cut and paste from the Guardian put it in bold. I did try to alter it, but it wouldn't seem to 'unbold.' (I am no expert at this kind of thing, I admit.) Don't let bold annoy you too much, though. It's just some words in bold.
Might be accurate, might not. What do you think?
Thanks for the thanks, but I don't remember claiming it was in-depth.
I don't really understand why you want me to suggest anything, as if it would actually matter.
