“ If Russia’s concern is really NATO membership, then let it offer to withdraw from Ukraine in return for a treaty of Ukrainian neutrality. But that is never going to happen because this war is about Russian expansion, not that of NATO.”
This was all offered to Ukraine before the SMO. Ukraine NATO, the US, gave Russia the middle finger, violated past treaties, and continued the ethnic cleansing. Russia conducted the SMO to prove they were serious. Ukraine signed a peace deal, Russia withdrew from the outskirts of Kiev, then Bozo F Face flew in from the UK and viola! Signed treaty never happened. Now about 750,000 dead Ukrainians later…. Boris Johnson will drink his ass to death with this on his soul.
Pure BS! Russia never offered to withdraw from Ukraine nor was there a signed peace treaty. As for violating past treaties, it was Russia with its invasion of Crimea and Donbas in 2014 and with its violation of the Minks Accords by not withdrawing its forces, not handing over the border to Ukraine, and by blocking the referenda planned by Ukraine. Stop pretending that this is about Russia protecting itself from western aggression. It is about Putin’s desire to restore the borders of imperial Russia, and that is all it has ever been about.