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They are nowhere near a genuine peace. This is not a war between honorable people with a reasonable dispute. This is a war between Russians who want to continue their centuries old practice of stealing land and subjugating people, and the people who don't want their land stolen.
Thinking you can "negotiate" your way to peace here is ridiculous. Russian imperialism is just as evil as any other thief or rapist. They're taking what isn't there's because they have no sense of ethics, and because so far, they've been able to get away with it.
What's really going on is Zelensky and co are using peace talks to show how evil Russia is (eg the very clever demand for free and fair elections in occupied Ukraine). Russia meanwhile is using peace talks to try to delay aid getting to Ukraine long enough that they can get a military victory.
The actual path to peace is to kill off the part of Russia's population that subscribes to this ideology. No different than how the most effective way to reduce rape and murder is to imprison and kill rapists and murderers.
They're just evil.
But I don’t understand how they got this way. Does this go back to Stalin? Like the Berlin Wall did come down so at some point Russia did have some compassion right??
Russia has been attacking and subjugating it’s neighbors for centuries.
The Berlin Wall is in Germany.
Please show us a map of all wars america has done. Will there be some ground untouched?
Do you really think stopping nazi germany in ww2 was a subjugation?
This is unfortunately the nature of big powerful countries. The same can be said about England, France, Germany, and if course, in modern days, the USA.
The Russians believe the conflict started long before 2022, in 2014, with the civil war in Ukraine/Donbass, where Russian populations where targeted by the Ukraine government...
The belligerents are so far apart and not budging from their maximalist positions that it's difficult to imagine these "peace talks" will lead to anything positive. We seem to be making a step forward but I'm convinced that in reality we're actually moving backwards...
Yeah I should take more time to do a deep dive on the war. I sort of ignored it these last few years
Most independent analysts I follow are convinced that Russia has already won the war, and it's just a question of what will remain of Ukraine after they collapse...
You are either reading Russian propagandist directly or indirectly from those who have been influenced by it.
You have lost your mind if you think you can beat russia with a proxy war.
Ukraine is a black hole when it comes to money. All this money is wasted and will not come back. Also all dead people will stay dead after the war.
How is it even possible that you visit ukraine and move around wile other people are hiding at home since a year because they fear to get caught, beaten and send to the meatgrinder?
Very difficult to get a good understanding of this war because there’s so much propaganda out there
Everyone is biased, and that's ok. The more biases we're exposed to, the better it is. I enjoyed the article.
Here in Europe, Russian opinions are verboten, this is why podcasts like The Duran are popular and helpful
USA cannot anymore fight a war of any scale because it has lost the ability to produce the materials required to fight a modern war.
Russia is a military proxy to China and can only mount this war because of Chinas support.
China is challenging US hegemony...and USA is on the back foot.
I watch The Duran YouTube channel almost daily, and I like their analysis in general.
Give us the best video that represents the situation there in your opinion
I'd recommend you watch any video from Alexander Mercouris, one of the hosts of The Duran yt channel. He also has his own yt channel where he posts daily updates, mostly on the situation in Ukraine. His analyses are based on Western and Russian information, and he has very well connected sources that often provide him with interesting scoops.
So strange when so close to peace talks