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rogerashton

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Mon Aug 18, 2025, 05:33 PM Aug 2025

Putin doesn't just 20% of Ukraine. He is demanding it all. Recall he said [View all]

in 2024 that Zelenskyy is not a "satisfactory" executive of Unkraine and so ineligible to sign an agreement. That means that a regime change is necessary before Putin will sign anything, and that the new executive must be satisfactory to Putin. That is, Putin would agree to a truce or peace only after a Russian puppet government is established over Ukraine. Then Russia has it all: 20% or so incorporated into the Russian Federation, the rest ruled by Russia through its puppet.

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