Reuters: Ukraine willing to be neutral, says Russia wants to split nation

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26. I put it in the same bin as "not joining NATO."

Was it a decision or acceptance of what others will allow?

Same for this. Ukraine lacks the offensive weapons necessary to retake that territory.

Those offensive weapons would also allow a much more robust defense. But nobody wants to annoy Putin--they let him set the terms of the conflict, to a large extent. It's a sucky precedent to set--let the aggressor determine the terms.

Without the offensive weapons, one must merely accept that all the bluster about "territorial integrity" was just that--bluster. Playing to the outraged public on the one hand, playing the outraged public on the other.

As Macron said today, the "collective" goal is just to "stop the war." Not win. Just "stop."