Oh please.
A regime change could also lead to another dictator. It's wild to me how everyone seems so sold on regime change. The guy replacing Putin won't be some benevolent dove, he could be far worse. Again, leading to more innocent deaths.
And if you give concessions to Putin him/his successor will be more emboldened to take the rest of Ukraine. Or Moldova. Or Estonia. Or Latvia.
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This is the same logic that sees weird, embittered people in the UK vote Tory despite saying how terrible they are because "they're all the same politicians". Well we'll never get to find out will we Norman if you always vote for the same ones?
I'm betting he's one of those old professors who doesn't even use email.
When all you have is a hammer [blaming the US], everything looks like a nail.... It's quite astounding how blind he is to the fact that both Ukraine and Russia have agency in this war. It's especially an issue with people who are focused on theory since they get so far up their own asses that they can't see anything else.
Exactly. There’s no guarantee a peace deal will stop innocent folks being killed. A peace deal that results in Russian control of Ukrainian territory could actually lead to the exact opposite due to ethnic cleansing / genocide by the Russians.
We don't know if it will lead to a new dictator. We are not the ones who will decide that, the Russians will decide (I mean *some* Russians, not all of them).
A regime change could lead to many things, but what it absolutely won't lead to is a person with as much control as Putin, at least not for many years. And that will tend to produce more favourable results for Ukraine and the rest of the world (and Russia).
I for one am shocked that a Western country pushing Russia for peace hasn't achieved anything.
If he used the opportunity to expose Putin to a nerve agent it will start to make a lot more sense.
Never going to work. Have you not seen the tables Putin sits at!?
More likely the other way round I would think. Austria is "neutral" don't forget.
I truly hate that bitch
Whatever the outcome in this war I'm 100% sure that peace-keeping forces will be a part of of any peace agreement. I can't see the Ukraine signing any peace deal without it.
Despicable creature.
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That’s still not really a guarantee of anything I mentioned. History is full of massacres happening despite peacekeepers being in place.
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What makes you think sanctions are doing nothing? And particularly will do nothing in the medium//long term?
No idea what has to be done but when the peace comes it has to be controlled somehow. Sadly I don't see this war end in a 'total' victory for Ukraine and the Russians leaving completely.
Doctor a can of wood polished. Job done
It will have to be more than just keepers of the peace (whatever that means). It will need to be a large, credible military force, well equipped and well-trained, with a clear mandate to defend Ukraine against future Russian invasion by all means necessary if needed.
It's so fecking horrible.
Come on we all know he doesn’t have any constructive suggestions
Usually those peace-keeping forces will come from a nation or nations that both countries agree to. Attacking them would be the same as declaring war on the country they are from. If it comes to peace and they agree on peace-keeping forces I don't see them being attacked by either side (Russians).
Except the Russians could simply ignore them and attack only Ukrainian forces and cities. This is why a lightly-armed, small peace-keeping force won't be enough. And it needs to have a mandate to engage either side militarily, regardless of whether or not it has itself been attacked, if the peace is broken.
Pretty much this.
Yep.Come on we all know he doesn’t have any constructive suggestions
He posted here to blame the US, not actually talk about what’s best for Ukraine.
That reminds me of why Operation Deliberate Force worked. That radical change of approach forced Bosnian Serbs back to the negotiation table whereas the UN peacekeeping force alone was not enough to do such for 3 years.
I don't know mate. I don't see a huge peace-keeping army being deployed but who knows.
How stupid can you be to have voted for her?
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I think the whole peace-keeping thing as I've defined it is moot anyway. This is because I don't see Putin agreeing to a military force that includes, for example, British troops (Britain having been proposed by Zelenskyy as one of the peace-guarantor nations) that have a mandate to fight against Russian troops if needed.
