"Just give him the Donbas. Then he'll stop."
Chechnya, 1999 — then he stopped? Georgia, 2008 — then he stopped? Crimea, 2014 — then he stopped? Donbas proxies, 2014–2021 — then he stopped? All of Ukraine, 2022 — and the proposal is to pay him for the failure?
Appetite that grows by eating doesn't have a "full." Every concession so far has been metabolized as proof the method works.
You're not proposing peace. You're proposing a feeding schedule — and volunteering someone else as the meal.
@KimberleyGrass@JohnCleese You seem to be confused. It is in fact all the money that Europe paid in the past decades for Russian energy that keeps the war going.
@KimberleyGrass@JohnCleese Russia is certainly the bad guy as it invaded Ukraine with 400k soldiers
Russia is keeping the war going
Putin wants to keep fighting to the last Russian.
Ukrainians are only defending their country
Linda,
What do you suggest, a withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, or just a Ukrainian surrender ?
First is unlikely, because if Putin loses, he's dead
So he's not going to stop a war he cannot win
@vonderleyen Dear Mrs von der Leyen, we need to be better than just "stand with". It is our duty as European civilization to take real action against terrorist russia now! Everyday russia commits new war crimes. We must not look away but efficiently stop russia and ensure Ukraine's victory.
On Ukraine’s Independence Day, we show our unfaltering support.
Today, we approved €6.1 billion for the air and missile defence systems, missiles, ammunition and radars that Ukraine urgently needs.
Europe stands with you today, tomorrow, and for as long as it takes.
З Днем Незалежності!
https://t.co/HvOHsJ3ocZ
🇺🇦❗️Zelensky on Putin:
China can no longer remain silent when someone dresses up in a sailor suit and military cap and, badly pronouncing certain words, talks about a nuclear strike.
China must respond. It must cool this fervor. China must prove its ambition to be one of the world’s leaders — not only economically and technologically, but also civilizationally — by making it clear that no dictator has the right to threaten the planet with his old nuclear warheads.
Putin hopes that we are tired. We know that he is mortal. He never understood us — and now he will not have time to. You wanted to take all of Ukraine, all of our land.
Instead, you lost your oil refineries, your fleet, your revenues, and an entire generation that you sent into the meat grinder.
You wanted us to disappear from the map. Now you are disappearing from the international agenda of the future civilization.
For 27 years, the ruler of Russia has been talking about greatness, while Russia stands in lines for gasoline.
@schiedam2105@ajboekestijn Uit welke afspraak blijkt dat het westen beloofd heeft nooit naar het oosten op te schuiven?
Hint: die afspraak bestaat niet
Wat wel een afspraak is: het Budapest memorandum, waarin Rusland veiligheidsgaranties geeft aan Ukraine in ruil voor opgeven atoomwapens