Belacqua needs a history lesson, again. Although, it's not like he's going to remember it.
One of the reasons why Ukraine is not making a peace deal with Russia is because it is pointless. In Russia, treaties and laws are made to be broken. Just a few:
Budapest Memorandum (1994)
Friendship Treaty with Ukraine (1997)
Helsinki Final Act (1975)
UN Charter (1945)
INF Treaty (1987)
CFE Treaty (1990)
New START (2010)
Open Skies (1992)
CWC (1993)
Minsk Agreements (2014, 2015)
The other is that Putin is an insane psychopath who wants the whole of Ukraine and then the rest of Europe.
One of the reasons why Ukraine is not making a peace deal with Russia is because it is pointless. In Russia, treaties and laws are made to be broken. Just a few:
Budapest Memorandum (1994)
Friendship Treaty with Ukraine (1997)
Helsinki Final Act (1975)
UN Charter (1945)
INF Treaty (1987)
CFE Treaty (1990)
New START (2010)
Open Skies (1992)
CWC (1993)
Minsk Agreements (2014, 2015)
The other is that Putin is an insane psychopath who wants the whole of Ukraine and then the rest of Europe.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
