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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think we SHOULD negotiate with the Russians.
Sit down across the table and calmly explain our "last and final offer".
1) Get out of Ukraine and stop shelling Ukraine cities.
Once that stops... once they are out... we can sit down again and discuss their actions to allow them back into the community of nations.
We don't need to make threats. The sanctions are crippling them, the whole continent is united against them (for now). And we can wait them out... might as well settle sooner rather than later.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)former9thward
(32,005 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Are in the same league?
She is an American citizen.
former9thward
(32,005 posts)So is it, we don't negotiate with terrorists except if it is an American citizen?
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Response to SheltieLover (Reply #18)
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BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)PortTack
(32,767 posts)To his goal of taking Ukraine you really think he wants to negotiate?
louis-t
(23,295 posts)die for his dream of putting the band back together?
PortTack
(32,767 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)So, no.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Whelan, Griner, etc. Putin doesn't want to negotiate over anything.
WarGamer
(12,444 posts)WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)dutch777
(3,016 posts)I doubt Putin can go that far politically/internally so therein lies the rub, whether it is the Ukraine military that pushes that far on their own or Russians/Putin falling apart on their own, it will be problematic in any case. I really don't see a clean end to this, sadly. Much needless suffering and decades of rebuilding and everyone involved weakened and crippled. Not to mention the collateral damage to many beyond RU and Ukraine.
Jack the Greater
(601 posts)HariSeldon
(455 posts)Ukraine needs territory well within 80km of Moscow and, ideally, of Minsk (though that is not Russian territory). In lieu of Belarusian territory, a 100km wide strip of Russian land along Russia's border with Belarus to reduce Kyiv's vulnerability to Russian forces might be acceptable. Also, enough Russian territory toward Georgia, including all Russian territory around the Sea of Azov (Crimea included, of course) to recompense Ukraine for the damage inflicted by this conflict.
WarGamer
(12,444 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)and before? Why would anyone trust a war criminal ?
I don't understand where this is coming from all of a sudden nor why.
Bev54
(10,052 posts)to pay for those crimes. Negotiate with their replacements full stop.
tirebiter
(2,536 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)We should not decide what Ukraine wants.
p.s.--I'm a Giants fan too. Hometown 72 years ago.