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sabbat hunter

(7,115 posts)
7. Sure he can end the war
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 01:37 PM
Aug 2025

All he has to do is give Putin everything he wants immediately.

Marco Rubio made the founds yesterday on the Sunday morning news shows. He basically said that Ukraine will have to give up the land stolen by Putin/Russia in order to get a peace treaty.

Haven't we learned from history, in particular the years leading up to WW2, that if you appease a dictator, they will then go after more in the future?
Remember Chamberlain "we have reached peace in our time" when the allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland. Shortly afterwards Hitler took over the rest of Czechoslovakia, followed by the invasion of Poland.
Does anyone for one second think that if Putin is allowed to keep all of what Russia has stolen, that he won't go after the rest of Ukraine as soon as he can?

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