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To: Petrosius
You're lyng. Here is exactly what Bennet said:

The Grinding War in Ukraine Could Have Ended a Long Time Ago

According to Bennett, as early as the second Saturday of the war, or a little less than a week and a half into the war, both Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian president Vladimir Putin made major concessions: Putin, by giving up on the goals of the “demilitarization” of Ukraine and its “denazification” — meaning, as Bennett interpreted it, regime change — and Zelensky by giving up on pursuing NATO membership.

Calling both leaders “pragmatic,” Bennett says that over the course of negotiations, he “was under the impression that both sides very much want[ed] a ceasefire” and gave the odds of any deal holding at 50-50. Over a “marathon of drafts,” he claims, seventeen draft agreements were prepared. But “they blocked it, and I thought [they were] wrong,” Bennett says, referring to the Western powers backing Ukraine.

“I have one claim,” Bennett told the interviewer. “I claim there was a good chance of reaching a ceasefire.” When the interviewer asks if he means “had they not curbed it,” he replies with a nod.

82 posted on 04/27/2024 8:15:29 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan
From The Bulwark:
Here, there are some translation discrepancies: the English subtitles from Bennett’s translator say “they blocked it,” while the Russian subtitles and English auto-translate say “they broke off negotiations.”
Additionally, attributing "they" to refer to the Western powers is the author's editorializing, not the words of Bennett which are ambiguous. Further down in the Bulwark article:
Slightly earlier in the interview, at about 2 hours and 45 minutes, Bennett makes another significant statement: while the talks achieved some breakthroughs, with Putin agreeing to drop his demands for Ukraine’s demilitarization and “denazification”—which Bennett understood to mean the removal of Volodymyr Zelensky as president of Ukraine—and Zelensky agreeing to drop the goal of NATO membership, all of that juddered to a halt in early April once the reports came in of Russian atrocities in Bucha, the town near Kyiv that had been under Russian occupation in March. As Bennett succinctly puts it: “The Bucha massacre—once that happened I said, it’s over.” In other words, it wasn’t the United States or Western countries or NATO that ended any peace talks, such as they were. Rather, it was, first and foremost, Russia’s bloody escalation of the violence.
Bennett latter clarified on X/Twitter:
1. It’s unsure there was any deal to be made. At the time I gave it roughly a 50% chance. Americans felt chances were way lower. Hard to tell who was right.
In other words, there was no peace deal.

Finally there is the timeline that I have already provided that shows that Zelensky was open to a peace agreement after Boris Johnson's visit and that it was Putin who declared that the negotiations had reached a dead end because of what he attributed to the lie of the Bucha atrocities. But none of this will stop the pro-Russian side from spreading the lie that an agreement had been made only to be blocked by Boris Johnson.

84 posted on 04/27/2024 8:44:34 PM PDT by Petrosius
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