What If Russia Makes a Deal?

[Mark Kohut]

I say Cicero could not have foreseen the overwhelming power of modern
nations....
Ukraine MUST get a way to protect themselves from that lying Putin ignoring
the peace
and attacking again.....this time he may not try old tanks....

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 9:30 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-03-23/what-if-russia-makes-deal
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> How to End a War That No One Is Likely to Win
>
> In this war, there will be no Munich, no Nuremberg, and no Versailles.
>
> The question now is what kind of ending Europe’s first major
> twenty-first-century war will feature. The Roman statesman and scholar
> Cicero argued that an unjust peace is better than a just war. Ongoing
> negotiations between Ukraine and Russia will put that proposition to the
> test.
>
>
> The Ukrainians’ brave resistance has halted the Russian advance. In
> ordering an invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin acted
> impulsively. Were he now to think strategically, he would cut his losses
> and look for a way to finish the war. His larger political aims are already
> out of reach. He cannot control Ukraine and will struggle to partition a
> country opposed to Russian occupation. Moscow has only an expensive and
> forbidding military path ahead of it, which together with sanctions will
> place sizable burdens on Putin’s regime. But whatever happens in Ukraine,
> Russia will still be a nuclear power, and it will retain Europe’s largest
> conventional military.
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