(November 9, 2024 at 5:55 am)Leonardo17 Wrote:(November 5, 2024 at 6:06 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Or -- Russia was never and is not interested in negotiating in good faith:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgro...ct-updates
No, it’s not that bad. With the election of Donald Trump, Putin has suddenly become less psychotic. He only wants Ukraine to not join NATO (I don’t know about the EU) and he want to keep the territories he already took.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-says-uk...09553.html
And you believe him? Of course he's trying to look reasonable right now, in anticipation of getting Trump o sign on. And what happens then? I don't think for a minunte he's disavowed his 2022 demands.