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Andreas Hopf's avatar

A well-rounded end-of-year synopsis.

The fundamental question remains: Why would Putin want to negotiate and settle on anything less than his maximalist goals? The feeble and fearful West is besotted with peacemaking, but is Russia even remotely interested?

Putin has sufficient disposable single-use soldiers available, enough matériel for another two or three years of attritional warfare, and with China, North Korea and Iran allies that deliver, while Ukraine has allies that dither.

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Henry Coates's avatar

Someone needs to call out the insane warmongers who want to see the world go up in nuclear hellfire.

We should all be “besotted” with peacemaking. My god, the level of brainrot people have indulged by making this war a hobby to be consumed on the internet is astounding.

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