Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

I would doubt the sincerity even now of any peace deal offered by Putin but even if what you are saying were true, given that Russia previously invaded Ukraine 2014 and repeated the aggression years later, historic behavior would indicate that they will keep trying Everytime they have the means to, in which case the strategy is identical to a simple playground bully situation. In this simplified scenario the bully says "I won't hurt you if you give me the money in your pocket", a nice peace deal you might say but the correct action is to smash him in the nose with all of your strength and in return get beaten up and lose your money anyway. It sounds counter intuitive but it may prevent the bully coming back again next week , " not worth the trouble"

De-nazification = stop having a national identity

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a proposal by a U.S. congressional delegation to sign a memorandum that would receive 50% of all mineral reserves in Ukraine.

According to the Washington Post, "Zelensky politely refused to sign", which was confirmed by the Ukrainian president himself, who announced that he refused to sign an agreement with the US on Ukrainian mineral deposits, estimating that it "would not protect" his country at this stage.

"I did not authorize the ministers to sign the agreement because it is not ready. In my opinion, he does not protect us," Zelenskyy said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, adding that such an agreement should include "security guarantees" for Ukraine.

But "I don't yet see in the document this link" between minerals and protection, he added.

Trying it on would be a wholly inadequate description.

Seems like the US is trying to lay the groundwork for assassination of Ukraine's positive image to try and make future negative actions against them seem justified.

It refers to Russian propaganda. Historical whataboutism used to justify invasion.

If you want to play those games, Russia joined with Nazi Germany to invade Poland.

It's a deflection technique. Note how you keep falling into these.

Doubly ironic there's Russian speaking ukranian battalions fighting against Russia.

Its existential for Europe so support is a given. The Felon and Cringelord in Washington will try all sorts of BS but the day is coming where they'll end up either being forced by various factors to continue aid or they'll find themselves hit in the pocket through counter tarriffs by the EU on their stronghold states and their buisness interests restricted in the EU (looking foward to the day Musks Xcrement network is banned in the EU due to his deliberate bullshit peddling and promoting of Vatnik/Nazi Propaganda.

Theres only one regime involved in this war, and thats Putin's one. Ukraine has an internationally recognised democratically elected government and president. Putin's regime (and richly deserved name) has never had an internationally recognized Presidential election. From day one, it has been a regime with a dictator Vladimir Putin at its head.

Once again I remind people that this particular poster was busy on another thread talking about how Iran's world-class air defense system has Israel running scared and completely thwarted Israel's attack, which experts acknowledge severely damaged Iran's already world-understood to be pitiful air defense network, and when asked for a link it was, and no joke….Iran state TV.

It is actually sad that someone could be so anti-US and anti-West that they are automatically pro every despotic regime going.

No matter what the deal is Ukraine have been victorious ,putin wanted it all and the brave Ukrainians have stopped them taking all of the country, They stopped the Russian army ,let that sink in , no other country can say that in modern times.

The high level diplomacy continues at a pace as US secretary of state Marco Rubio and Russian foreign minister Lavrov spoke by phone yesterday.

Great to see lines of communication opening and discussions on global issues being discussed also.

https://archive.is/Kags5

"I saw someone saying that there will be a meeting in Saudi Arabia at the level of the presidents of the US and Russia. Some kind of peace talks. They even put up our flag... I don't know what this is. This is not serious,"

-Zelensky

The chaos of the Trump clown-show surrounding this is something to behold.

Except since the present US administration is either directly compromised by Russia and/or fanboys/useful idiots of Russia; the "diplomacy" is the same as having a conversation with yourself. The US doesn't get to decide the fate of other sovereign nations, no matter the delusions of Putin's orange puppet nor his fanboys posting on internet chat boards.

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-ukraine-slowing-advance-reasons-9debf4e1

The advance of the orcs has completely stalled in the east of Ukraine. Massive casualties and huge losses of weapons. If Ukraine continue to maintain the pressure it will collapse like it has many times before.

This is all incredibly embarrassing.

What was the point in fighting the last 3 years if in the end Putin wins anyway.

Hard not to strike similarities between 1939 and now.

He's delighted Hungary are in NATO and says his heart is with Ukraine. He says Russia is a militaristic nation whose main priority is keeping Russia together and democracy is not their priority.

Ukraine posed a threat to Russia or at least that's what Ukraine thought.