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[โ€“] [email protected] 93 points 17 hours ago (35 children)

What is there to negotiate? If all the russians leave ukraine, ukranians will probably stop shooting them...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Reminder: Russia violated all of these uninformed.

Also, why is this posted here? This is not a meme.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Everyday life is a meme now

[โ€“] [email protected] 247 points 21 hours ago (12 children)

If Russia withdrew their troops, there would be peace immediately.

If Ukraine withdrew their troops, Ukraine would be no more - and thereโ€™s no indication Russia would stop there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Lots of LLM bots today. We may need to start verifying accounts :/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The deal should be... All Russian troops get pulled out of Ukraine. Ukraine gets a lump sum of all seized Russian assets in foreign nations, Russia agrees not to move troops within 100 miles of Ukraine's border without Ukraine's consent. Ukraine agrees to allow and even assist civillain Russian services with locating and returning living and deceased Russians.

The alternative is we take the limits off of what targets can be attacked within Russia, and enable Ukraine to enforce the conditions as proposed.

I'd also like to add that Russia and the US give up their UN "super veto" power. I don't think anything good and effective can come from the UN when a single country can just "nope" any UN proposals.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Veto power in the UN is a short for "we will use nukes if you do this". The UN is not world government, it's the organisation which task(among many less important things) is to prevent nuclear war.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Ah, that explains why India and North Korea have veto power.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 117 points 19 hours ago (36 children)

Fool me once, shame on me, fool me 20 times and I should sign away half my country's mineral wealth for no guarantees and no gains...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago

Slava Ukraini ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

[โ€“] [email protected] 95 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

War in Donbas

Ukraine, Russia, the DPR and LPR signed a ceasefire agreement, the Minsk Protocol, in September 2014.[40] Ceasefire breaches became rife, 29 in all,[41] and heavy fighting resumed in January 2015, during which the separatists captured Donetsk Airport. A new ceasefire, Minsk II, was agreed on 12 February 2015. Immediately after, separatists renewed their offensive on Debaltseve and forced Ukraine's military to withdraw.[42] Skirmishes continued but the front line did not change. Both sides fortified their position by building networks of trenches, bunkers and tunnels, resulting in static trench warfare.[43][44] Stalemate led to the war being called a "frozen conflict",[45] but Donbas remained a war zone, with dozens killed monthly.[46] In 2017, on average a Ukrainian soldier died every three days,[47] with an estimated 40,000 separatist and 6,000 Russian troops in the region.[48][49] By the end of 2017, OSCE observers had counted around 30,000 people in military gear crossing from Russia at the two border checkpoints it was allowed to monitor,[50] and documented military convoys crossing from Russia covertly.[51] All sides agreed to a roadmap for ending the war in October 2019,[52] but it remained unresolved.[53][54] During 2021, Ukrainian fatalities rose sharply and Russian forces massed around Ukraine's borders.[55] Russia recognised the DPR and LPR as independent states on 21 February 2022 and deployed troops to those territories. On 24 February, Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, subsuming the war in Donbas into it.

Make no Mistake: Russia is trying to destroy Ukraine since 2014. Russia is the agressor and needs to put in its place.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Negotiations without security assurances*

This is the prime stickler with the USA-Ukraine deal that has been discussed on the news

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

Putin needs to lose something or he'll just invade someone else.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 50 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

You can absolutely want peace and even agree to concessions to Russia to reach a sustainable peace, but this point is absolutely valid: there must be security guarantees, otherwise Putin will just use the armistice to rebuild its strength and attack again.

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