[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Interesting comment from the Yahoo!News re-publishing of a Reuters article --

Alan22
45 minutes ago Putin has to give up something as does Ukraine for there to be peace. Maybe they haven't suffered enough. Let the war continue until both sides want peace more than they want war.

Seems there are more than two opinions in this world.

[mairdie]

Putin and Trump are still positioning for the start of negotiations. Will work out well.

[Gen.Blather]

There’s a well known style of negotiation literally called “Russian negotiation style.”. Think New York attitude turned up to eleven. Trump will eat their lunch.

[Mariner]

Russia holds all the cards.

Why would they fold?

[Ex-Con777]

“ Moscow swiftly underscored that its maximalist demands ”

Putin read Trump’s book. Things will turn out well. Journalists would do well to read the book also.

EC

[McGruff]

“Ukraine must drop its NATO ambitions and withdraw its troops from the entirety of the territory of four Ukrainian regions claimed and mostly controlled by Russia.”

Pretty much what will happen.

[Georgia Girl 2]

This stuff is opening gambits.

[JonPreston]

Once Zelensky is defunded, negotiations will proceed smoothy.

[iamgalt]

Reuters/Yahoo - how you know the story is BS

[SaxxonWoods]

Patience, Grasshopper.

[tennmountainman]

Fight to the last Ukie Male.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Putin holds none of the cards and will cave to Trump quickly. Resulting in the withdraw of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory

[Karl Spooner]

Etched in your mind forever

Scholz Surrenders & Kills Ukraine’s Nato Hope, Says This... | Putin Wins Without Firing a Shot? Putin Smiles

[GBA]

It’s putin’s war and he’s taking a LOT of casualties and is losing an insanely unsustainable amount of equipment each and every day.

Poor Ukraine can’t surrender, nor should they, but Putin can stop his Ukrainian conquest misadventure whenever he chooses to, just as he could easily restart his invasion again, too, if he stops too soon.

The life and death psychological truth is, he hasn’t lost enough people and equipment yet to lose his desire for war and conquest. Putin wants what Ukraine has more than he cares about what it costs to take it from them.

For that reason, this war can’t truly end until Putin’s ego’s desires and his troops have fully bled out while dying in Ukraine.

Otherwise, just like with Germany after WWI, he or someone like him be back with this same deja vu all over again.

[Hammerhead]

1. Let Crimea become an independent nation. They will ally with Russia. They already do so, so what?

2. a 50 demilitarized zone on the Uke/Russian border.

3. Ensure full ingress/regress for Uke access to the Black Sea ports

4. No NATO

5. No nukes

DONE.