I completely agree with you. Passions running high.
OK, let's agree on the following (if possible):
- Putin (not Russians) should never have attacked Ukraine (irrespective of whether he was provoked or not)
- let's also agree that Azov is now part of government forces and is there to protect homeland (irrespective of any possible past)
- let's agree that anything coming out of Russia is propaganda
- let's agree that there are rogue units on both sides causing atrocities not relevant to war (soldiers fighting each other)
- let's agree that none of the above has a true reflection on ordinary Russians nor Ukrainians
- and let's finally agree that the most important thing right now is the end of this conflict and safety of the people
Question is - how can this be achieved?
The simple answer might be for Russia to exit Ukraine. But we all know that is a very simplistic way of looking at it. Russia will never do that for a number of reasons. 1/ it would lose face. 2/ it would lose any power to negotiate either now or anytime in the future (isame reason other countries are in possession of nuclear weapons - not because they want to bomb others, but because it increases their power to negotiate on global scale).
So the answer to my question is to negotiate with Putin, but nobody is prepared to do that. The EU might be prepared to do that, but they are too under the spell of the US, which has not even taken part in the negotiation of the aid corridor.
I maintain it is in the best interest of the US to prolong this conflict for as long as possible as it weakens Russia position in global markets (attempts at de-dollarization, supply of energy etc).
This is where the incessant "marketing" of everything Russia bad is so dangerous. It distracts people away from the only possible way out - negotiation.
I think you missing the fact that Putin doesn't want to negotiate. And you missing the fact that Putin did exactly the same thing as Hitler, who also had no wish to negotiate.
Russia not interested in negotiations on ‘many issues’: Former Clinton aide
Former Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton Toby Gaty says Russia is not interested in negotiating on “many issues” to help end the war.
“After 20 years more or less of having an open Russia, we now have a Russia that’s closing, that’s becoming much more totalitarian in its treatment of its own people, and sees the West as an enemy. In fact, it is preparing its population for long war and for reduced standard of living all in the name of worry of the Russian state,” she told Al Jazeera from Washington, DC.
Gaty said Moscow was expecting to be isolated and is “preparing” for it, and the war in Ukraine was “a perfect example of that where their view is they have certain goals and they would like to achieve those goals”.
“They’re really not interested in whether we [the West] accept their definition of what Ukraine should look like or whether it should exist at all,” she added.
“Our [US] secretary of state and the Russian foreign minister have not spoken since the beginning of the Ukraine war because they don’t think there’s no point and there probably isn’t because the fighting is going to go on. It will go on all summer, autumn. And in the winter, that’s when probably negotiations will start.”
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