“A simple cease fire will probably benefit Ukraine if the West continues supplying arms and sustainment.”
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And that is why there won’t be one. The Russians don’t trust us, and know that any ceasefire will just lead to rearming - just like Korea, Cyprus, Kosovo, etc. Conflicts just waiting to restart.
Give war a chance.
I understand what you’re saying, and it is a very uneasy peace in those places. The war(s) fought there have never really ended, just the fighting.
Yet the killing and dying have stopped.
That’s not a bad thing for both Russians and Ukrainians.
Surely Lavrov cannot want it to go on—as it has—indefinitely... Perhaps the Russian government believe they can still win this thing if they persist, and perhaps so.