This Russian genocide apologist is just so annoyed by Ukraine insisting on continuing to exist, an existence which Russia's entire leadership has openly committed to exterminating: https://www.justsecurity.org/81789/russias-eliminationist-rhetoric-against-ukraine-a-collection/. A process already begun with mass child deportations and forced adoptions, filtration camps, looting of occupied Ukraine’s museums’ artistic heritage. Russia’s western useful idiots think the war is about them and their nuclear bedwetting. It’s not. It’s about Ukraine’s survival not being contingent and negotiable — including the millions of Ukrainians living under neo-Stalinist occupation complete with its new Gulag in Crimea and elsewhere in Russia.

Russia's war against Ukraine's existence started with Peter I, continued under Saxon courtesan/Tsarina Catherine, under the language bans of both Alexanders, both Nicholases, Stalin's genocidal Holodomor and now, the Putinator. Fail to defeat him? He'll be back.

Mr. Dunn also failed to simply read NATO's charter. No nation with a territorial dispute can join.

Sign a peace? Putin won't negotiate with Ukraine because he says it doesn't exist. Listen to Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Meduza and TV Rain in Riga, Nobel Peace Prize winning Memorial co-founder Irina Sherbakova: to have peace Russia must be defeated.

Putin wants to negotiate about Ukraine without Ukraine, as Hitler did about Czechoslovakia in 1938. Lavrov the Liar said no negotiations until Ukraine accepts Russia's annexations. Putin Parrots like Code Pinkos and this appeaser are just bit players in Putin's ventriloquism act.

Here's the antidote to this fact-free ahistorical useful idiocy:

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/russian-war-endgames-97224daa545a

“To become better, a country must lose its last colonial war.” — Tim Snyder

Everyone says they want peace. The problem is different people mean different things by “peace.”

Most think it means the absence of war. But the mere cessation of combat is truce, not peace. To understand how to get to real peace, look at its road map backwards, at the full spectrum that past conflict terminations shows us.

Most wars end in negotiation, not unconditional surrender and the losing power occupied like Japan by the US or annihilated like Carthage was by Rome. So Russia’s useful idiots in the West keep insisting it’s time to pull the plug on military aid to Ukraine and negotiate.

If that means negotiating about Ukraine without Ukraine, as with Czechoslovakia in 1938, so be it. Putin loves this idea since he and his cronies deny Ukraine exists at all:

I abhor all these calls for so-called negotiations with Putin. Putin does not want to negotiate because he doesn’t believe Ukraine is a state. The only way he will negotiate is with the Americans because he doesn’t think Ukraine is a partner. — Garry Kasparov, May 29, 2023

So we’ve learned since 1938 where that strategy leads and now say no negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine, despite recent revelations about a not so secret back door to Russia.

War as negotiation

Indeed, war itself is a form of negotiation, a test of wills and resources to clarify the combatants’ relative power — to close the gap between their ambitions and reality. Misread your opponent’s or your own resources, will and stamina, and you’ll lose.

On February 24, 2022 Russia did exactly that. Finish the job by de-imperializing Russia, or do it twice, as we had to do with Germany after 1918. A negotiated truce will not bring peace.