We’ll know the talks are genuine when they become “piece talks” what pieces of each area go to which combatant leader.
That’s why there’s always a rush of battles to gain ground before someone draws lines to say “it will stay at this parallel and this line here from now on.”
Bkmk
This is a joke! Tick-Tock, all the Russians need to do is wait out the inevitable fall of Ukraine. There won’t be any division, they’ll just be complete conquest. History teaches that Catherine the Great was right about Russia’s need for access to warm-water ports.