According to The New York Times, “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Tuesday that peace talks with Ukraine had reached a ‘dead end’ and he falsely called the evidence of Russian atrocities in a Kyiv suburb ‘fake,’ using his first extended remarks about the war in nearly a month to insist that Russia would persist in its invasion.”
You’re kidding me with this, right? What part of my post from the beginning of the war did people not understand? Allow myself to quote myself, “It [peace talks] is a ruse. It is all propaganda.” How could there be a “dead end” when no one was on the road to negotiations in the first place. Putin does not want peace. He wants annihilation and nothing less. I wish people would understand this! It seems that diplomats on the MSM, in particular, are still holding out hope for a compromise. I guess the old saying is true: A carpenter sees every problem as a nail. Of course, this type of narrow thinking constrains and misguides diplomats’ and politicians’ understanding of how to bring Russia’s unjust war against Ukraine to an end. The way to bring peace with Putin is not to negotiate or compromise! The only way is to offer terms of unconditional surrender. Unless and until the world understands that the only way to “work” with Putin is through utter defeat, then the free world will be in danger everywhere. Do not negotiate; offer Russia peace terms!
And if I have to hear one more idiot pundit, reporter, diplomat, politician, journalist, or general “expert” talk about giving Putin an “off-ramp” to this war, then I’m going to blow my f***ing gourd. How many ways can I say the same thing? There is only one outcome of this war: Putin is utterly defeated. He’s not looking for a f***ing G.D. “off-ramp,” and Ukraine should not be offering one to him unless it includes Russia’s total and unconditional capitulation! This is Putin’s last act. People have yet to grasp this notion.