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To: SmokingJoe
And Dementia Joe and Boris Johnson effectively killed a budding peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia back in April, because apparently Dementia Joe wanted to “punish” the Russians for “helping Trump win” in 2016.

Not true.

Read the entire Foreign Policy article from which that lie was derived from and see for yourself:

The World Putin Wants: How Distortions About the Past Feed Delusions About the Future

Despite calls by some for a negotiated settlement that would involve Ukrainian territorial concessions, Putin seems uninterested in a compromise that would leave Ukraine as a sovereign, independent state—whatever its borders. According to multiple former senior U.S. officials we spoke with, in April 2022, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement: Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries. But as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in a July interview with his country’s state media, this compromise is no longer an option. Even giving Russia all of the Donbas is not enough. “Now the geography is different,” Lavrov asserted, in describing Russia’s short-term military aims. “It’s also Kherson and the Zaporizhzhya regions and a number of other territories.” The goal is not negotiation, but Ukrainian capitulation.

45 posted on 09/22/2022 8:11:23 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler
Despite calls by some for a negotiated settlement that would involve Ukrainian territorial concessions, Putin seems uninterested in a compromise that would leave Ukraine as a sovereign, independent state—whatever its borders. According to multiple former senior U.S. officials we spoke with

You still believe stuff from the always lying Dementia Joe regime that still insists our borders are secure? You are lost.

55 posted on 09/22/2022 8:16:48 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: Timber Rattler

The authors of the garbage you throw. Brookings Institution. Have you checked out who the board of Trustees are at that institution? Hint - thing big liberal banks and big liberal business.

FIONA HILL is Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. From 2017 to 2019, she was the Senior Director for Europe and Russia on the U.S. National Security Council. She is the author of There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-first Century.

ANGELA STENT is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Professor Emerita at Georgetown University. She is the author of Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest.


62 posted on 09/22/2022 8:25:08 PM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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