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This is how the war could have ended in April 2022 (www.focus.de)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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military neutrality
outlaw extreme nationalism
cede Crimea and part of Donbass
full Russian withdrawal
guarantor countries (🇨🇳🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧🇹🇷) obliged to intervene within 3 days if Russia invades

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Putin’s clearest answer yet came in a speech delivered on Monday. He believes that Ukraine is an illegitimate country that exists on land that’s historically and rightfully Russian: “Ukraine actually never had stable traditions of real statehood,” as he puts it.

That is when the war started, when they were going to take Kiev in three days and Putin has repeated the assertion that Ukraine is really "part of Russia" multiple times since then. Russia switched to the narrative of taking only Donbass when the offense was stopped and Ukraine started retaking ground.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fascinating. So if one state doesn't recognize another, that means that it "clearly states its aim is to fully annex it." So for example, the US doesn't recognize the government of Afghanistan, so that means the US "clearly states" it aims to reinvade and fully annex Afghanistan, do I have that right?

Or maybe you meant to say that Russia implicitly suggested that it intended to fully annex Ukraine, according to your speculation?