Posted on 08/10/2025 8:11:03 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The weapons don’t matter. They are not out of weapons. They are out of people. Weapons can be built on site.
Defacto territory settlement, conditioned ceasefire and ending of sanctions. The NATO question is not really in play because NATO membership requires a nation to be in total control of its territory. Membership would require them to relinqish what was only DeFacto otherwise.
Vance: “If you take where the current line of contact between Russia and Ukraine is, we’re going to try to find some negotiated settlement that the Ukrainians and the Russians can live with, where they can live in relative peace, where the killing stops. It’s not going to make anybody super happy.”
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Whatever lines are set, the hatred between Russia and the West is such that it’s going to require a neutral buffer zone with a neutral police force to monitor and maintain order. I don’t know how the original lines were drawn through an ethnic region but it has caused untold tensions among the local inhabitants. Just the hard policed border where relatives and friends are no longer able to traverse is tragic.
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