• wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Fears of peace talks

    What kind of bullshit Orwellian headline is this? Peace is GOOD, stopping the bloodshed is GOOD. We WANT less people to die.

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      10 months ago

      The only reason I opened the article, “whatchu mean fear of peace talks?!”

      Like I get it, Ukraine shouldn’t capitulate. But ending the bloodshed is a good thing, surely.

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        10 months ago

        To what end though? Freeze the border where it is now and give Russia another few years to build up force for round 3?

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          10 months ago

          I suppose that’s up to Ukraine, right? They’re the ones fighting so it makes sense for them to decide what terms they’d be willing to accept.

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            10 months ago

            So, you didn’t read the article? The fear is not about peace talks, it’s about support from the US forcing them while Ukraine is making progress.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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              10 months ago

              But I thought Ukraine was a free and sovereign nation making its own decisions. You NAFO bots really need to get your story straight.

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        10 months ago

        The issue is that we’ve already tried the whole peace thing before. Remember the Budapest Memorandum? The Minsk Protocol & Minsk II? The Partition & Friendship Treaties?

        I feel like the heart of the issue is that Russia doesn’t want peace. If it did, we would not be here in the first place.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          You mean the Minsk agreements Ukraine refused to implement for 8 years, and the west has now admitted were designed to buy time to arm Ukraine for the proxy war. Not really helping your case there bud.

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            10 months ago

            …Ukraine refused to implement for 8 years, and the west has now admitted were designed to buy time to arm Ukraine for the proxy war

            [citation needed]

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      10 months ago

      The fear is that there is pressure for peace talk conditions to be less than fair to Ukraine, that this would be little more than appeasement of Russia, like what happened with Czechoslovakia in the 1930s

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        Ukraine was in a far better position when US and UK sabotaged peace talks last March, and Ukrainian position continues to deteriorate. So what exactly do you think delaying negotiations more is going to accomplish?

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      10 months ago

      The hill is a pretty conservative outlet but this is a disturbing headline for sure. The only way to end the war is with peace talks, there is no other option. The better Ukraine does on the ground the better they will do in the negotiations.

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        10 months ago

        Always pay attention to the commenter‘s instance. All three above are hexbear users, so expect a heavy pro russian stance.