[Cronos]

Peace talks onoy make sense if both parties are sincere.

Putin took Crimea and the Donetsk people’s Republic and the Luhansk people’s Republic from Ukraine in 2014. The fighting had subsided to a frozen conflict.

But Putin then attacked Ukraine and went for decapitation, attacking Kyiv.

At the same time Putin and his controlled Russian media keep claiming Ukraine is an illegitimate country and should be assimilated into Russia.

You can’t negotiate with that. Any “peace” is just a breather for Russia to rearm and then return when the world’s attention is turned elsewhere.

[DoughtyOne]

I’d have to agree that seems to be a pretty safe bet.

This situation does not lend itself to negotiation, but then
Trump supports it.

I don’t like seeing the Ukraine diced up, because it clearly
lets Russia benefit from it’s invasion and the hundreds of
thousands who died.

[Eagles6]

Putin broke the START 1 Treaty, the Lisbon Protocol and the Budapest Memorandum when he invaded Donbas in 2014 and annexed Crimea.

How can you negotiate with someone whose word is worthless?

[nickfrost1]

But Putin then attacked Ukraine and went for decapitation, attacking Kyiv.==

Yeah but it happened after Ukraine disbanded Friendship Treaty with Russia in 2019. The only one treaty which guarantied Ukrainian birder.