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I hope that Putin saying that the negotiations are a few days short of a breakthrough are not just lies and distractions, and that his losses have been substant
by axiosgunnar 5y ago
I hope that Putin saying that the negotiations are a few days short of a breakthrough are not just lies and distractions, and that his losses have been substantial enough that he is willing to give up (= sign a peace treaty).
That would obviously be the best outcome for all and would put an end to any escalation.
What might happen instead is that this is only to buy time to do something nasty like a chemical attack, or slowly capturing one city after another, kidnapping the mayors and installing their own puppets.
How this might escalate is that Nato has already stated that if their convoys are attacked, they invoke Art. 5, and Putin has says that he considers the convoys valid targets.
- egfx 5y ago> How this might escalate is that Nato has already stated that if their convoys are attacked, they invoke Art. 5, and Putin has says that he considers the convoys valid targets. Only if the convoys are attacked within NATO territory and not within Ukrainian territory.
- axiosgunnar 5y agoIf NATO territory is attacked, then obviously NATO would retaliate as that is the very purpose of NATO, but some sources were saying that Jens Soltenberg extended that to attack on the convoys inside Ukraine as well: > “Today, the head of NATO… Mr. Stoltenberg has made a statement: if a single projectile, a single bullet hits a convoy that … [is delivering arms] to Ukraine, [NATO] will consider it a trigger for Article 5 [of the North Atlantic Treaty],” Danilov said while on air on Rada, the Ukrainian parliament's TV Channel. https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14001222000658/Kiev-Claims-NATO-Will-Defend-Arms-Cnvys-Ukraine-Agains-Rssia https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14001222000658/Kiev-Claims-N... I know that is not the most truthworthy source of course.