I wish the Minsk agreements had held. The world would have been a better place now.
We could ask Gaddafi what happens when you cross the neocons, but he has “left the building”...
The funny fact is that the Minsk agreements were geared for the maximal Ukrainian benefit possible. Some even considered it a betrayal ofbl Donbas people.
They allowed Ukraine to keep all the territory minus Crimea.
The West derailed them simply out of spite to provoke conflict.
Shame, then, that successive annual reports by the DNR itself said Minsk 2 was being implemented and had ALREADY ended the genocide, but Putin tore it up in February because Pushilin said Ukraine was about to invade the DPR.
Which it wasn’t.
“Minsk agreements had held. The world would have been a better place now.”
Although rebels pose a threat as a spoiler, they are still dependent on Russia. If Putin completely withdrew support, that could have brought them in line since they could not win a war on their own.
Minsk II failed because the accords did not include high profile support and signatures from all parties or take into account realism and Russia’s basic interests. Any accord ignoring geopolitical power pretending non-existance is “doomed to failure”
Thucydides wrote: “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”