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If no: then you can do NOTHING effective about Russia.
Reign your own war criminals in and bring them to heel. Only after you have done that, are you going to be in a position to do anything effective about Russia - if, indeed, the "Russian threat" boogeyman still persists, long after you've actually sent your own war criminals to rot in chains in The Hague .. which is, admittedly, quite unlikely given that the very same war criminals you would have to confront and prosecute are the ones telling you boogeyman stories ..
This is just propaganda for the rubes.
> This is just propaganda for the rubes.
Perhaps let's keep language like that on reddit?
It isn't theory. It's a practical understanding of who and what Putin and the Russia state are.
The practical reality is that Russia has been expanding by increments. First Georgia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
Then Crimea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_occupation_of_Crimea
And now they're trying for more of Ukraine.
Submission and appeasement don't lead to good outcomes.
> why did they offer Ukraine a peace deal
Russia can end the war tomorrow. All Russia needs to do is get out of Ukraine. All of it. Simple to do, easy to achieve.
That's the best peace deal Russia can offer.
This is why Russia is called "expansionist". Because it likes to expand its territory.
Before Boris arrived to scupper it.
That's not what happened. I know you read some snippet somewhere that made it sound like that's what happened. But simply put, you're being played. And that's not actually what happened.
Watch the interview if you don't like the source.
Ukrainian negotiator David Arahamiya: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/official-john...
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lt4E0DiJts
More than snippets
Perhaps it would be a good idea to switch to sites that don't have "conservative" in their URL.
And lo and behold, the fact of two guys stating a certain narrative about those events (then embellished up a bit by the publications quoting them) does not make it so. Even the article you're citing about Arahamiya's version of events isn't so clear-cut about the matter (it says Boris's advice was but one factor among many) as you're making it out to be.