Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and start negotiations if Kyiv began withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected what he called an ultimatum by Putin to surrender more territory…

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    “I’ll walk away if you let me steal what I want.” Yeah no. You’ll be back tomorrow anyway.

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      I saw a different interpretation of the same news on Hexbear. The gist of it was as follows:

      • Putin is being bold because he’s winning and at this point can make such demands.
      • He’s even being generous, he’s winning and gives Ukraine the opportunity to stop the deaths.
      • Ukraine is not expected to accept these terms, because “the West” won’t allow them.

      So yeah…

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        • Russia already made peace offers in the past. So far they always did them when things weren’t going well for them.
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        I wonder if all of the Russian propagandists on hexbear know each other, or if they believe anyone on hexbear is a real person.

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          I’m honestly so curious about it. Like, the way they argue sort of implicitly acknowledges that they aren’t actually right about the facts, and are just trying to engage in tactics to “win” or claim victory instead of talking about what’s really going on. They have to understand that, on some level, in order to be able to do it. And yet, there seem like there are way too many of them and the endeavor would be too pointless for it to all be just troll farms talking to each other every day about how awesome Russia and China are.

          Like I really wish that I could push a button and turn off fog of war for a second and see what’s actually going on there. Who are you? Who are the propagandists, in which groupings, and how many accounts do they run and which ones? What is everyone’s motivation? Where do the people live? And so on.

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    He’s lying. Ukraine’s only long term defence is NATO membership. And conceding territory worked so well with Crimea, eh.

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    Fool me once, shame on you.

    Fool me twice, shame on you.

    Fool me three times? Leave me the fuck alone you annoying prick.

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    Dear president Putin, We see this as a very reasonable deal. Will you join president Zelenskyj for a ceremonial signing at Oude Waalsdorperweg 10 tomorrow?

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    Yes Putin, that sounds very reasonable, but alternatively and I’m sure you will find this equally reasonable. Why don’t you pull back to Moscow, and let Ukraine have their territory back, plus everything Russia has around the black sea?

    Also Russia: Stop escalating by sending in old equipment, or we will nuke you!

    I’m sure you can see where we come from, because it’s the same place you are coming from. Malignant narcissistic insanity, with zero regard for human lives or reason or anything that rhymes with decency.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and start negotiations if Kyiv began withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO.

    Broader demands for peace that Putin listed included Ukraine’s recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, keeping the country’s nonnuclear status, restricting its military force and protecting the interests of the Russian-speaking population.

    Putin’s remarks, made to a group of somber Foreign Ministry officials and some senior lawmakers, represented a rare occasion in which he clearly laid out his conditions for ending the war in Ukraine, but it didn’t include any new demands.

    Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry called Putin’s plan “manipulative,” “absurd” and designed to “mislead the international community, undermine diplomatic efforts aimed at achieving a just peace, and split the unity of the world majority around the goals and principles of the U.N. Charter.”

    Moscow withdrew from Kyiv in March 2022 and described it a goodwill gesture as peace talks between the two began, but the pullback took place amid fierce Ukrainian resistance that significantly slowed down Russia’s battlefield advances.

    Putin also claimed that in that same month, he told a foreign official he wasn’t ruling out withdrawing forces from the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions and ceding occupied parts of them back to Ukraine, as long as Kyiv allowed Russia to have a “strong land connection” to Crimea.


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      Moscow withdrew from Kyiv in March 2022 and described it a goodwill gesture

      That’s, uh, being quite generous. They rushed to Kyiv, couldn’t take it, and had terrible supply lines. They had to retreat when Kyiv didn’t fall in two days as they expected.

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    The song New Kings by Sleeping Wolf reminds me of Ukraine keep up the good fight and never give up - From US Citizen.