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To: Who is John Galt?

When Putin withdraws his army from Ukraine, I’ll start to take your comments seriously.


21 posted on 05/12/2025 11:31:52 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain
When Putin withdraws his army from Ukraine...

Funny - that was nearly agreed to over three years ago:

[After the war had been under way for a month] Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, trusted by both sides, served as Putin and Zelensky’s go-between and developed the outline of a ceasefire. Putin dropped his demand for the “disarmament of Ukraine”; Zelensky agreed to drop plans to join NATO... Russia would withdraw from eastern Ukraine; Ukraine would recognize Russia’s possession of Crimea; Ukraine would drop its NATO aspiration and seek security guarantees from individual Western countries.

Zelensky’s advisor, David Arakhamia, later commented, “They were prepared to end the war if we agreed to, as Finland once did, neutrality and committed that we would not join NATO. In fact this was the key point.” The Istanbul negotiations even produced a draft agreement. Zelensky’s aide, Alexey Arestovich, described the negotiations as completely successful: “We opened the champagne bottle.”

But Washington would have none of it. Bennet later explained, “The Americans decided to crush Putin rather than to negotiate.” Shortly thereafter Boris Johnson showed up in Kiev with promises of more weapons and a message from Biden...

The First Draft of the Ukraine War’s History

Unfortunately, Biden, the Democrats, and their supporters preferred war in 2022 - how's that working out?

;^)

22 posted on 05/12/2025 11:56:02 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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