I was working on a longer response that included things like, the food crisis that didn't happen, or how the economist is advocating more military aid from the west to end the war faster, but all of those are moot points when you get to the real problem, which is that for the russians to come to any sort of agreement that can be believed, they have to be decisively defeated. That doesn't mean Ukraine has to liberate the donbas or crimea, just that russia needs to know they have lost.
Sometimes people need to slug it out till they reach the point where they are ready to talk.
Have you read my Lieven piece? That's where the case is made; what you're saying here about Russians needed to be defeated first is addressed in the Lieven piece.
Yes, the food crisis is one of the major points of that article. It is also predicated on the idea that the Ukrainians could do no more than fight the Russians to a stalemate, which Ukraine has shown not to be true.
You want to end the war more quickly? We need to send them more stuff. We have to escalate to de-escalate.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-war-began-putin-rejected-ukraine-peace-deal-recommended-by-his-aide-2022-09-14/
When are you going to stop with this blocking diplomacy narrative?
Thanks for commenting! Just read the linked interview with Lieven to see where I'm coming from on that front! :)
I've read all your other stuff. I know where you're coming from. That narrative is a load of crap.
Let me know anything that's wrong with the Lieven interview; that's the interview where this position is defended.
I was working on a longer response that included things like, the food crisis that didn't happen, or how the economist is advocating more military aid from the west to end the war faster, but all of those are moot points when you get to the real problem, which is that for the russians to come to any sort of agreement that can be believed, they have to be decisively defeated. That doesn't mean Ukraine has to liberate the donbas or crimea, just that russia needs to know they have lost.
Sometimes people need to slug it out till they reach the point where they are ready to talk.
Have you read my Lieven piece? That's where the case is made; what you're saying here about Russians needed to be defeated first is addressed in the Lieven piece.
Yes, the food crisis is one of the major points of that article. It is also predicated on the idea that the Ukrainians could do no more than fight the Russians to a stalemate, which Ukraine has shown not to be true.
You want to end the war more quickly? We need to send them more stuff. We have to escalate to de-escalate.