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> I really don't know where you got the idea that they had any agency in preventing this short of giving Russia all of their territory and fleeing West. This i
by jampekka 7mo ago
> I really don't know where you got the idea that they had any agency in preventing this short of giving Russia all of their territory and fleeing West.
This is at best a conjecture. It's arguable what terms are acceptable and to whom, but Russia has offered and is offering substantially milder terms than taking all of Ukraine. They probably wouldn't even want western Ukraine if offered.
- jacquesm 7mo agoNo, they would definitely want western Ukraine and they would take it too. From the beginning of the war it was pretty clear that they were going for all of it. Remember the assault on Kyiv, as well as the leaked map that showed all of Ukraine and Moldova as the target of the 'special operation'.
- BurningFrog 6mo agoPutin has been very clear that he doesn't consider Ukraine a legitimate/"real" country. In his own words: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828