• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    If Ukraine doesn’t get back Crimea and other lost territories, it’s a bit of a disappointing end result.
    But I understand perfectly well if Ukraine wants an end to this war.

    But Zelensky has expressed many times that Russia will just rearm and try again, unless something is done to prevent that.
    So there has to be more to this than Russia just promising to stop the war.

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      It’s not about Crimea or the occupied part of Donbas (and Kherson and Zaporizhie).

      This issue is the Russians won’t stop.

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      Indeed, this is a terrible development. Especially since Orban is hosting the event, receiving a war criminal (2 by now, with Trump’s illegal actions in the Caribbean) on EU territory.

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        At this point Zelensky is mostly sweet talking Trump, maybe to keep intelligence flowing, and the weapons Europe is allowed to buy from USA to Ukraine at an extra marked up price that goes to the US government.
        But we don’t need USA much longer, and I doubt Zelensky will agree to a deal where Russia gives nothing.

        Trump claimed earlier that Zelensky doesn’t have any cards, but the truth is all Ukraine is in a stronger position than ever, and Russia is on the verge of economic, military and political collapse. Which happen first we will have to wait and see.
        But it won’t be long now.

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      Calling it “a bit” disappointing is an understatement. There are people who lived in Crimea but had to lose their life’s investments in property after the 2014 invasion, then they had to lose family members, friends and neighbors, if not their own lives to the war. Getting the land back for a new beginning is at least some consolation for something that can never be returned, though after the irreparable losses, the people of Ukraine deserve plenty more than what they had before 2014.