cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/6492077
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“We will get a fair solution only once Russian elites have concluded that the original invasion was a mistake and that the aim of rebuilding the Russian empire is unachievable,” Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski [said], warning Western partners against seeking quick compromises that could leave Ukraine vulnerable to renewed aggression.
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The foreign minister warned against repeating past diplomatic failures, pointing to the Minsk agreements that followed Russia’s earlier aggression against Ukraine in 2014. Those deals, he said, were negotiated over the heads of Central and Eastern European countries and failed to prevent a full-scale invasion in 2022.
“We don’t need a Minsk three,” Sikorski said. Any settlement, he added, must leave Ukraine with defensible borders and the freedom to integrate with the European Union. “Otherwise, it’s just kicking the can down the road.”
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They won’t. They are so stubborn, that they prolonged the 3 day special military operation for more than 1400 days just to not lose their face. All they can do is lie.
Also those among the elites who saw it as a mistake have fallen out of windows a while ago.
Yes, but those “elites” won’t do that by themselves, they should be forced. And this is exactly where the problem is: nobody wants to actually apply force.