fosforus@sopuli.xyz to World News@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoRussia dismisses Ukraine peace plan: ‘Let’s decide it on the battlefield’www.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square155fedilinkarrow-up1307arrow-down120
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minus-squareKepabar@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoExactly. There really is nothing to negotiate anyway. Ukraine does not want to give up territory. Giving Russia anything for it is tatamount to paying a ransom. It would only encourage Russia to invade again in a decade or less. Russia turning around and giving up the territory without gaining anything is just accepting complete defeat. They won’t do that. So it’s a battle of attrition, both morale and economic.
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Exactly.
There really is nothing to negotiate anyway.
Ukraine does not want to give up territory.
Giving Russia anything for it is tatamount to paying a ransom. It would only encourage Russia to invade again in a decade or less.
Russia turning around and giving up the territory without gaining anything is just accepting complete defeat. They won’t do that.
So it’s a battle of attrition, both morale and economic.