Russia invaded Ukraine after Ukraine had deprioritised NATO membership, completed a whole month of not killing or injuring a single noncombatant in the Donbas. And Ukraine was the one telling NATO that Russia surely wasn’t so nuts as to invade it without a credible cause.
What purpose would any peace deal have achieved once Russia broke every peace guarantee it had ever made to Ukraine?
The disingenuous vatniks still can’t even stick to a straight story on why they invaded Ukraine in the first place.
If it was solely about protecting the Donbas, why head for Kyiv?
If it was about hitting military targets, why bomb places like Vinnitsya, Lviv, and Khmelnytskyi?
If it was about protecting ethnic Russians, why did Russian forces alongside the LDNR kill more ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine in the first eight weeks than Azov killed in eight years?
If it was about promoting Slavic unity, why the reliance on Wagner’s neonazi guns for hire, and Chechen islamists? And why all the genocidal “kill the khokols” venom?
If it was about NATO expansion what was the bloody point of making nuclear threats at Sweden and Finland when neither had even expressed a loose interest in joining the alliance?
If it was about making Ukraine think a peace deal was worth making, what dimwit decided it’d be a really good idea to dedicate screeds of academic discussion alongside hours of TV debate on how Ukraine needed two generations of forced reeducation and punishment with 5-15percent of “unteachable” refuseniks sent to the gulags or executed?
Literally everything Russia chose to do from day one had “surrendering will be worse for Ukraine than fighting back” written all over it.
Damned right Zelenskyy realised that only an idiot wpuld sue for peace against a regime that had been preparing for the invasion for months and who showed no serious interest in postponing the invasion under any circumstances at all.
Russia even went so full retard it told NATO straight up that its peace terms amounted to “let us invade any country in the old Eastern bloc including Ukraine without NATO lifting a finger, or we’ll invade Ukraine”.
You act as if there’s a rational peace to be negotiated after a demand like that. Even the Russian negotiators thought the Kremlin had lost its mind.
They should also ask "Li'l Z" why he did not warn the population that Russia was going to invade so they could prepare...