[kiryandil]

The bottom line is that the Russians aren't going to negotiate with a former president and current comedian.

It's really that simple.

[bimboeruption]

>>>>The bottom line is that the Russians aren’t going to negotiate with a former president and current comedian.

It’s really that simple.<<<<

Exactly. Putin knows a waste of time when he sees it.

[adorno]

The bottom line is that the Russians aren't going to negotiate with a former president and current comedian.

Oh, but they are.

Even if indirectly, Putin is negotiating to try to keep what territory he has taken by force, and he's doing the negotiations behind the scene.

But worse than that, Putin is negotiating against the Ukrainian people, using force to get them to concede and allow Russia to take over Ukraine. That last type of 'negotiation' is called terrorism, and we in the U.S. know what terrorism looks like first-hand, with terrorists all over the world trying to eliminate U.S. influence wherever it exists. Putin uses his military to terrorize and uses other countries (Iran, Hamas, China, etc) to spread that terrorism.

Zelensky is just the face of the current Ukrainian government, but Putin's target is all of Ukraine, including the people and the land and its resources. Putin feels that Russia is entitled to making Ukraine part of his empire, since they were part of the Russian empire not too long ago. Nobody should ever negotiate with a dictator, and especially one with empire building ideals.