• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 00:52
CET 06:52
KST 14:52
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners12
Community News
[BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 103SC2 All-Star Invitational: Jan 17-1822Weekly Cups (Dec 22-28): Classic & MaxPax win, Percival surprises3Weekly Cups (Dec 15-21): Classic wins big, MaxPax & Clem take weeklies3ComeBackTV's documentary on Byun's Career !11
StarCraft 2
General
SC2 All-Star Invitational: Jan 17-18 Weekly Cups (Dec 22-28): Classic & MaxPax win, Percival surprises Chinese SC2 server to reopen; live all-star event in Hangzhou Starcraft 2 Zerg Coach ComeBackTV's documentary on Byun's Career !
Tourneys
uThermal 2v2 Circuit OSC Season 13 World Championship WardiTV Mondays $5,000+ WardiTV 2025 Championship $100 Prize Pool - Winter Warp Gate Masters Showdow
Strategy
Simple Questions Simple Answers
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 507 Well Trained Mutation # 506 Warp Zone Mutation # 505 Rise From Ashes Mutation # 504 Retribution
Brood War
General
Data analysis on 70 million replays I would like to say something about StarCraft BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Empty tournaments section on Liquipedia A cwal.gg Extension - Easily keep track of anyone
Tourneys
[BSL21] Grand Finals - Sunday 21:00 CET [BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 10 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues SLON Grand Finals – Season 2
Strategy
Game Theory for Starcraft Current Meta Simple Questions, Simple Answers [G] How to get started on ladder as a new Z player
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Awesome Games Done Quick 2026! General RTS Discussion Thread Beyond All Reason Elden Ring Thread
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas Survivor II: The Amazon Sengoku Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Trading/Investing Thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread The Big Programming Thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
White-Ra Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List TL+ Announced
Blogs
Psychological Factors That D…
TrAiDoS
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
StarCraft improvement
iopq
GOAT of Goats list
BisuDagger
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 2139 users

Russo-Ukrainian War Thread - Page 816

Forum Index > General Forum
Post a Reply
Prev 1 814 815 816 817 818 909 Next
NOTE: When providing a source, please provide a very brief summary on what it's about and what purpose it adds to the discussion. The supporting statement should clearly explain why the subject is relevant and needs to be discussed. Please follow this rule especially for tweets.

Your supporting statement should always come BEFORE you provide the source.
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands22015 Posts
May 21 2025 08:49 GMT
#16301
On May 21 2025 16:05 ETisME wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2025 15:31 maybenexttime wrote:
On May 21 2025 13:23 ETisME wrote:
On May 21 2025 11:55 KwarK wrote:
On May 21 2025 11:24 ETisME wrote:
On May 21 2025 10:10 KwarK wrote:
There is no compromise offer on the table, nor will there be. This war is existential. Russia is unwilling to accept a former colony having independence. They require Ukraine return to vassal status.

If it’s existential then why have talks for the past few years?
I thought ceasefire etc would buy Russia more time for bigger invasion?

Those talks that haven’t gone anywhere? Not sure you’re making the point you think you are. They were a waste of time which is why Russia didn’t bother with them.

Russia has decided they will not tolerate an independent Ukraine. Ukraine can’t compromise with that because you can’t be sovereign only half the time or whatever. There is no middle ground.

um no?

Ukraine doesn't see it as "waste of time" or "can't compromise" or "no middle ground".
If Ukraine sees it as the way you do, there wouldn't even be any attempts for any talk, and for the past few years there had been multiple attempts and talks.

Having no result, or Russia grand scheme of eliminating Ukraine, is not even relevant.

It's been explained multiple times yet you keep asking those stupid questions. There is no middle ground for Russia. Nothing short of full conquest of Ukraine (either now or at a later stage) will satisfy them. Ukraine is prepared to make some concessions (like losing some territory in exchange for credible security guarantees). That's why Ukraine has been engaging in peace talks in earnest while Russia has not. For Russia they're a tool to create bad optics for Ukraine. Every time Russia makes some ludicrous offer and Ukraine rejects it, there will be idiots painting Ukraine as not wanting peace. This is particularly true after Trump was re-elected.

It's a stupid presumption that Ukraine is treating Russia as an existential threat and that there is no middle ground for any kinds of negotiation, even with all the talks that have been happening.
And yes one side eventually have to make compromise and make some counter-offer, and that's the losing side.
This is how any negotiation goes.
Ukraine or Russia, don't matter, same logic applies.
If Ukraine loses there will be no surrender because Russia's goal is genocide.
If Russia loses Putin is not going to give up because he dies if he does.
The only visible patch to peace talks is if Putin dies and his replacement blame this disaster of a campaign on him to save face and goes home.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43380 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-05-21 12:53:29
May 21 2025 12:52 GMT
#16302
Why not have the PRC rule the ROC on weekdays and the ROC rule the PRC on weekends. Compromise.

Sovereignty isn’t the kind of thing you can do half way.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
maybenexttime
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Poland5722 Posts
May 21 2025 15:38 GMT
#16303
On May 21 2025 16:05 ETisME wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2025 15:31 maybenexttime wrote:
On May 21 2025 13:23 ETisME wrote:
On May 21 2025 11:55 KwarK wrote:
On May 21 2025 11:24 ETisME wrote:
On May 21 2025 10:10 KwarK wrote:
There is no compromise offer on the table, nor will there be. This war is existential. Russia is unwilling to accept a former colony having independence. They require Ukraine return to vassal status.

If it’s existential then why have talks for the past few years?
I thought ceasefire etc would buy Russia more time for bigger invasion?

Those talks that haven’t gone anywhere? Not sure you’re making the point you think you are. They were a waste of time which is why Russia didn’t bother with them.

Russia has decided they will not tolerate an independent Ukraine. Ukraine can’t compromise with that because you can’t be sovereign only half the time or whatever. There is no middle ground.

um no?

Ukraine doesn't see it as "waste of time" or "can't compromise" or "no middle ground".
If Ukraine sees it as the way you do, there wouldn't even be any attempts for any talk, and for the past few years there had been multiple attempts and talks.

Having no result, or Russia grand scheme of eliminating Ukraine, is not even relevant.

It's been explained multiple times yet you keep asking those stupid questions. There is no middle ground for Russia. Nothing short of full conquest of Ukraine (either now or at a later stage) will satisfy them. Ukraine is prepared to make some concessions (like losing some territory in exchange for credible security guarantees). That's why Ukraine has been engaging in peace talks in earnest while Russia has not. For Russia they're a tool to create bad optics for Ukraine. Every time Russia makes some ludicrous offer and Ukraine rejects it, there will be idiots painting Ukraine as not wanting peace. This is particularly true after Trump was re-elected.

It's a stupid presumption that Ukraine is treating Russia as an existential threat and that there is no middle ground for any kinds of negotiation, even with all the talks that have been happening.
And yes one side eventually have to make compromise and make some counter-offer, and that's the losing side.
This is how any negotiation goes.
Ukraine or Russia, don't matter, same logic applies.

Ukraine treating this as an existential threat is not a presumption. It's a fact. It's Ukraine's official position on the matter.

You don't seem to have the slightest clue as to what Ukraine's position is, what Russia's position is, or why either side is engaging in the peace talks.
Morogg
Profile Joined May 2025
1 Post
May 21 2025 19:27 GMT
#16304
--- Nuked ---
Excludos
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway8229 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-05-21 21:13:02
May 21 2025 21:10 GMT
#16305
On the topic of why there are peace talks which (surprisingly) isn't going anywhere: It's about perception. This is something Trump started pushing through, and whilst that could on the surface be seen as a good thing, the truth is that it's completely pointless as neither side is willing to concede; Ukraine doesn't want to stop being Ukraine, and Russia can't live with Ukraine continuing to be Ukraine. Any idea that this war isn't existential in nature is hopelessly blind.

But both parts also wants to be perceived as reasonable on the world stage, and willing to meet for talks, knowing it'll never lead to anything. Because being seen as unreasonable is going to bring consequences in forms of less support for Ukraine, or more sanctions for Russia. So they show up to negotiations, make demands they know the other part isn't going to accept, agree to disagree, and leave.

This is exactly why Zelenskyy pushed for a face to face with Putin, knowing full well Putin never would or even could meet him, as that would suggest legitimacy to Zelenskyy's rule, which Putin have been working incredibly hard to create an image that he isn't. So Putin didn't show, Zelenskyy did, which created the excuse EU needed for another round of sanctions. This is how politics works; it's all about optics.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43380 Posts
May 21 2025 22:10 GMT
#16306
The point that Putin literally can’t talk to Zelenskyy is a good one. Central to the Russian narrative is that in the world there are great powers that have sovereignty and then there are vassals which have governors. To him Zelenskyy is a rogue governor that has been swayed or corrupted by one of Russia’s rivals. That’s why they’re allowed to just invade the place and annex it. It’s not a real country. That’s why they insist on negotiating with the US, the US must be behind the trouble, Ukraine is incapable of acting alone.

If Putin meets with Zelenskyy then he recognizes that Ukraine is capable of electing its own leader and making decisions for itself. And in that scenario they can’t justify the invasion. Zelenskyy can only be a criminal within the Russian narrative.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12629 Posts
May 22 2025 05:12 GMT
#16307
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43380 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-05-22 06:08:22
May 22 2025 05:22 GMT
#16308
On May 22 2025 14:12 ETisME wrote:
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.

Perhaps you could explain the middle ground between being a Russian dominated proxy and having independence backed up by a credible military capable of resisting Russia.
You are laughably ignorant about this conflict. The "both sides have raised their stakes non stop" shit is absurd. One side opened with a full military invasion, rush to seize the capital, and an annexation of half of the other. The other resisted. The stakes could not have been higher from day 1. It doesn't get much higher than an armoured column attempting to seize the seat of national government and impose a quisling governor. What more could they have demanded on day 1? Total control of Ukraine and a ham sandwich? What form of resistance could Ukraine have offered that you would not consider escalatory?

Putin has as much interest in listening to Ukraine as a lion has in the opinions of the gazelle it has caught. And the gazelle will continue to kick because it can't propose that the lion only eat the right side of its body and leave the left. The gazelle may kick its way free or it may be devoured but there is no scenario in which the gazelle talks the lion into eating its head and torso but leaving the rump flesh.

You're here trying to convince us that the gazelle is equally at fault for kicking and that if it stops then the lion might decide to not eat so much of it.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Excludos
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway8229 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-05-22 11:26:35
May 22 2025 05:43 GMT
#16309
On May 22 2025 14:12 ETisME wrote:
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.


There is no middle ground to be had, that's what you're not understanding. Ukraine can only accept an offer with security guarantees, which in practice means joining EU or Nato, as words are cheap. Anything else will just be an excuse for Russia to re-invade later. For Russia, this is a non-starter. They'll rather fight down to the last man than accept Ukraine joining Nato as part of a peace deal.

That's not to say peace can never be achieved. Negotiations just can't be forced through right now. Something has to change first. This is why you can't just do a Trump and pretend peace is easy "you just need to get both parties to the table". Both parties must want to be at the table too.

And for the last time, stop equating it to other wars that are nothing alike. They've been fighting in the middle east for thousands of years, with a constant change of borders and religious excuses. It's not remotely a similar situation
maybenexttime
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Poland5722 Posts
May 22 2025 06:03 GMT
#16310
On May 22 2025 14:12 ETisME wrote:
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.

So Russia openly announces its genocidal intent and commits numerous genocidal acts, and Ukraine proclaims the war as an existential threat, but you know better.

You're the one detached from reality.
jodljodl
Profile Joined October 2016
175 Posts
May 22 2025 07:05 GMT
#16311
On May 22 2025 15:03 maybenexttime wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 22 2025 14:12 ETisME wrote:
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.

So Russia openly announces its genocidal intent and commits numerous genocidal acts, and Ukraine proclaims the war as an existential threat, but you know better.

You're the one detached from reality.


+1

"It's time for settling". jesus. I'm not omniscient but pattern I am able to spot. So let me tell you about Putin's strategy in a nutshell:

Start War + spreading BS + wait.
until
It's time for settling aka win the war you started + open bottle of champange.
wait
Start War + spreading BS + wait.
until.
It's time for settling aka win the war you started + open bottle of champange.
wait
...
Kim Doh Woo
Excludos
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway8229 Posts
May 22 2025 11:29 GMT
#16312
On May 22 2025 16:05 jodljodl wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 22 2025 15:03 maybenexttime wrote:
On May 22 2025 14:12 ETisME wrote:
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.

So Russia openly announces its genocidal intent and commits numerous genocidal acts, and Ukraine proclaims the war as an existential threat, but you know better.

You're the one detached from reality.


+1

"It's time for settling". jesus. I'm not omniscient but pattern I am able to spot. So let me tell you about Putin's strategy in a nutshell:

Start War + spreading BS + wait.
until
It's time for settling aka win the war you started + open bottle of champange.
wait
Start War + spreading BS + wait.
until.
It's time for settling aka win the war you started + open bottle of champange.
wait
...


It's a genius strategy! Only costing the lives of hundreds of thousands of men, impacting millions more (billions if you consider the effects of flushing the world economy down the toilet). Such a graceful benevolent man!
Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11698 Posts
May 22 2025 12:32 GMT
#16313
Different people value different things. To some people, lines on a map are a lot more valuable than the lives of hundreds of thousands of men. Sadly, these kinds of people are often in positions which allows them to decide what happens to lots of people.
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12629 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-05-23 09:21:18
May 23 2025 09:17 GMT
#16314
On May 22 2025 14:22 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 22 2025 14:12 ETisME wrote:
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.

Perhaps you could explain the middle ground between being a Russian dominated proxy and having independence backed up by a credible military capable of resisting Russia.
You are laughably ignorant about this conflict. The "both sides have raised their stakes non stop" shit is absurd. One side opened with a full military invasion, rush to seize the capital, and an annexation of half of the other. The other resisted. The stakes could not have been higher from day 1. It doesn't get much higher than an armoured column attempting to seize the seat of national government and impose a quisling governor. What more could they have demanded on day 1? Total control of Ukraine and a ham sandwich? What form of resistance could Ukraine have offered that you would not consider escalatory?

Putin has as much interest in listening to Ukraine as a lion has in the opinions of the gazelle it has caught. And the gazelle will continue to kick because it can't propose that the lion only eat the right side of its body and leave the left. The gazelle may kick its way free or it may be devoured but there is no scenario in which the gazelle talks the lion into eating its head and torso but leaving the rump flesh.
You're here trying to convince us that the gazelle is equally at fault for kicking and that if it stops then the lion might decide to not eat so much of it.

"laughably ignorant"
Yeah you have written an entire fan fiction and theories, except for the very basic fact that Ukraine and Russia almost reached a peace couple months after the invasion. OOPS
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-could-have-ended-war-ukraine

And no, raising the stake = raising the cost, doesn't matter if Ukraine is being forced to response with higher force.
Unless you think the stakes have stayed the same for the past few years, even when Germany started off by sending helmets.

You can repeat every single sentence here for the Russia invasion in 2014 and they would still make sense, except that also ended.

Whether this is the conflict to end all be all, that's where you seem pretty settled about from your own point of view.
But let's not get all upset just because your reality isn't quite aligning with all that's happening.
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
0x64
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Finland4601 Posts
May 23 2025 09:20 GMT
#16315
On May 23 2025 18:17 ETisME wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 22 2025 14:22 KwarK wrote:
On May 22 2025 14:12 ETisME wrote:
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.

Perhaps you could explain the middle ground between being a Russian dominated proxy and having independence backed up by a credible military capable of resisting Russia.
You are laughably ignorant about this conflict. The "both sides have raised their stakes non stop" shit is absurd. One side opened with a full military invasion, rush to seize the capital, and an annexation of half of the other. The other resisted. The stakes could not have been higher from day 1. It doesn't get much higher than an armoured column attempting to seize the seat of national government and impose a quisling governor. What more could they have demanded on day 1? Total control of Ukraine and a ham sandwich? What form of resistance could Ukraine have offered that you would not consider escalatory?

Putin has as much interest in listening to Ukraine as a lion has in the opinions of the gazelle it has caught. And the gazelle will continue to kick because it can't propose that the lion only eat the right side of its body and leave the left. The gazelle may kick its way free or it may be devoured but there is no scenario in which the gazelle talks the lion into eating its head and torso but leaving the rump flesh.
You're here trying to convince us that the gazelle is equally at fault for kicking and that if it stops then the lion might decide to not eat so much of it.

"laughably ignorant"
Yeah you have written an entire fan fiction and theories, except for the very basic fact that Ukraine and Russia almost reached a peace couple months after the invasion.

And no, raising the stake = raising the cost, doesn't matter if Ukraine is being forced to response with higher force.
Unless you think the stakes have stayed the same for the past few years, even when Germany started off by sending helmets.

You can repeat every single sentence here for the Russia invasion in 2014 and they would still make sense, except that also ended. Whether this is the conflict to end all be all, that's where you seem pretty settled about from your own point of view.

Don't get upset just because your reality isn't aligning with what is going on.


How does your personal opinions become basic facts?
Dump of assembler code from 0xffffffec to 0x64: End of assembler dump.
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12629 Posts
May 23 2025 09:22 GMT
#16316
On May 23 2025 18:20 0x64 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 23 2025 18:17 ETisME wrote:
On May 22 2025 14:22 KwarK wrote:
On May 22 2025 14:12 ETisME wrote:
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.

Perhaps you could explain the middle ground between being a Russian dominated proxy and having independence backed up by a credible military capable of resisting Russia.
You are laughably ignorant about this conflict. The "both sides have raised their stakes non stop" shit is absurd. One side opened with a full military invasion, rush to seize the capital, and an annexation of half of the other. The other resisted. The stakes could not have been higher from day 1. It doesn't get much higher than an armoured column attempting to seize the seat of national government and impose a quisling governor. What more could they have demanded on day 1? Total control of Ukraine and a ham sandwich? What form of resistance could Ukraine have offered that you would not consider escalatory?

Putin has as much interest in listening to Ukraine as a lion has in the opinions of the gazelle it has caught. And the gazelle will continue to kick because it can't propose that the lion only eat the right side of its body and leave the left. The gazelle may kick its way free or it may be devoured but there is no scenario in which the gazelle talks the lion into eating its head and torso but leaving the rump flesh.
You're here trying to convince us that the gazelle is equally at fault for kicking and that if it stops then the lion might decide to not eat so much of it.

"laughably ignorant"
Yeah you have written an entire fan fiction and theories, except for the very basic fact that Ukraine and Russia almost reached a peace couple months after the invasion.

And no, raising the stake = raising the cost, doesn't matter if Ukraine is being forced to response with higher force.
Unless you think the stakes have stayed the same for the past few years, even when Germany started off by sending helmets.

You can repeat every single sentence here for the Russia invasion in 2014 and they would still make sense, except that also ended. Whether this is the conflict to end all be all, that's where you seem pretty settled about from your own point of view.

Don't get upset just because your reality isn't aligning with what is going on.


How does your personal opinions become basic facts?

It's not a personal opinion to know every day war goes on, more resources = more stake
or
the fact that they almost reached a deal way earlier in the war.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-could-have-ended-war-ukraine

Do you know what is an opinion and what is basic fact?
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10827 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-05-23 10:00:40
May 23 2025 09:55 GMT
#16317
Interesting article but... Ahm... Care to explain how you derive from it that there was almost a peace agreement when they, for various reasons, couldn't even negotiate a cease fire? Even your article states this a bit further down...

Yes, they exchanged several drafts and were in talks for a peace deal. So? Who wouldn't? Even in the article it states that the drafts all contained positions Ukraine (or Russia) couldn't/wouldn't swallow among other minor poison pills that made it unfeasible for Ukraine (or Russia).
Yes, Ukraines/Zelenskys hunger for immediate peace dimished after the atrocities Russia commited and Ukraines army porving to be capable to hold it's own and maybe even defeat Russia. That doesn't seem hard to understand or illogical?

Maybe if the West pressured Ukraine to get a deal asap either due to being unwilling to support Ukraine and being willing to "accept" Russias actions, things would be diffrent or, according to your article, give bigger future safety guarantees than even Natos Article 5 would....
But why would the "West" do so (and why would Russia in the end suddenly accept this)? Whats the interest from the West here? I mean, if you don't like to appease a spineless mass murderer leading a rogue state that has proven to not be capable of achieving his goals (at the very least in the short term)?
0x64
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Finland4601 Posts
May 23 2025 10:11 GMT
#16318
On May 23 2025 18:22 ETisME wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 23 2025 18:20 0x64 wrote:
On May 23 2025 18:17 ETisME wrote:
On May 22 2025 14:22 KwarK wrote:
On May 22 2025 14:12 ETisME wrote:
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.

Perhaps you could explain the middle ground between being a Russian dominated proxy and having independence backed up by a credible military capable of resisting Russia.
You are laughably ignorant about this conflict. The "both sides have raised their stakes non stop" shit is absurd. One side opened with a full military invasion, rush to seize the capital, and an annexation of half of the other. The other resisted. The stakes could not have been higher from day 1. It doesn't get much higher than an armoured column attempting to seize the seat of national government and impose a quisling governor. What more could they have demanded on day 1? Total control of Ukraine and a ham sandwich? What form of resistance could Ukraine have offered that you would not consider escalatory?

Putin has as much interest in listening to Ukraine as a lion has in the opinions of the gazelle it has caught. And the gazelle will continue to kick because it can't propose that the lion only eat the right side of its body and leave the left. The gazelle may kick its way free or it may be devoured but there is no scenario in which the gazelle talks the lion into eating its head and torso but leaving the rump flesh.
You're here trying to convince us that the gazelle is equally at fault for kicking and that if it stops then the lion might decide to not eat so much of it.

"laughably ignorant"
Yeah you have written an entire fan fiction and theories, except for the very basic fact that Ukraine and Russia almost reached a peace couple months after the invasion.

And no, raising the stake = raising the cost, doesn't matter if Ukraine is being forced to response with higher force.
Unless you think the stakes have stayed the same for the past few years, even when Germany started off by sending helmets.

You can repeat every single sentence here for the Russia invasion in 2014 and they would still make sense, except that also ended. Whether this is the conflict to end all be all, that's where you seem pretty settled about from your own point of view.

Don't get upset just because your reality isn't aligning with what is going on.


How does your personal opinions become basic facts?

It's not a personal opinion to know every day war goes on, more resources = more stake
or
the fact that they almost reached a deal way earlier in the war.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-could-have-ended-war-ukraine

Do you know what is an opinion and what is basic fact?

It's your interpretation of what you read, not what was written nor what was happening. So yes, we see you as little stubborn and simple minded but let this be a little bit of love and attention you crave so much.
Dump of assembler code from 0xffffffec to 0x64: End of assembler dump.
zeo
Profile Joined October 2009
Serbia6331 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-05-23 11:15:37
May 23 2025 11:09 GMT
#16319
On May 23 2025 19:11 0x64 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 23 2025 18:22 ETisME wrote:
On May 23 2025 18:20 0x64 wrote:
On May 23 2025 18:17 ETisME wrote:
On May 22 2025 14:22 KwarK wrote:
On May 22 2025 14:12 ETisME wrote:
No one should expect anything "reasonable" with the first few offers, especially not when both sides have raised their stakes non stop for the past couple of years and it's time for settling.

To say they are existential threat means they can't make a middle ground deal is just disconnected with reality.
The entire middle East is a giant battleground, and they still can make their deals, even if war breaks out every now and then throughout the centuries.

Perhaps you could explain the middle ground between being a Russian dominated proxy and having independence backed up by a credible military capable of resisting Russia.
You are laughably ignorant about this conflict. The "both sides have raised their stakes non stop" shit is absurd. One side opened with a full military invasion, rush to seize the capital, and an annexation of half of the other. The other resisted. The stakes could not have been higher from day 1. It doesn't get much higher than an armoured column attempting to seize the seat of national government and impose a quisling governor. What more could they have demanded on day 1? Total control of Ukraine and a ham sandwich? What form of resistance could Ukraine have offered that you would not consider escalatory?

Putin has as much interest in listening to Ukraine as a lion has in the opinions of the gazelle it has caught. And the gazelle will continue to kick because it can't propose that the lion only eat the right side of its body and leave the left. The gazelle may kick its way free or it may be devoured but there is no scenario in which the gazelle talks the lion into eating its head and torso but leaving the rump flesh.
You're here trying to convince us that the gazelle is equally at fault for kicking and that if it stops then the lion might decide to not eat so much of it.

"laughably ignorant"
Yeah you have written an entire fan fiction and theories, except for the very basic fact that Ukraine and Russia almost reached a peace couple months after the invasion.

And no, raising the stake = raising the cost, doesn't matter if Ukraine is being forced to response with higher force.
Unless you think the stakes have stayed the same for the past few years, even when Germany started off by sending helmets.

You can repeat every single sentence here for the Russia invasion in 2014 and they would still make sense, except that also ended. Whether this is the conflict to end all be all, that's where you seem pretty settled about from your own point of view.

Don't get upset just because your reality isn't aligning with what is going on.


How does your personal opinions become basic facts?

It's not a personal opinion to know every day war goes on, more resources = more stake
or
the fact that they almost reached a deal way earlier in the war.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-could-have-ended-war-ukraine

Do you know what is an opinion and what is basic fact?

It's your interpretation of what you read, not what was written nor what was happening. So yes, we see you as little stubborn and simple minded but let this be a little bit of love and attention you crave so much.

Who is 'we' exactly? Are multiple people using your account? You really should inform these multiple personalities that bandwagoning and ad hominem attacks against neutral opinions dont help their cause.
"If only Kircheis were here" - Everyone
Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10827 Posts
May 23 2025 11:21 GMT
#16320
Being neutral is not the same as being willfully blind or allways trying to stand in the middle of two opposing parties or points.
Prev 1 814 815 816 817 818 909 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 3h 9m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
RuFF_SC2 233
NeuroSwarm 165
StarCraft: Brood War
Zeus 421
Snow 205
Shuttle 74
JulyZerg 52
ZergMaN 44
Bale 12
Icarus 6
NotJumperer 3
Dota 2
XaKoH 306
League of Legends
JimRising 795
C9.Mang0598
Counter-Strike
summit1g9779
Super Smash Bros
Mew2King55
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick31760
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 18 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• practicex 41
• Kozan
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• sooper7s
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Migwel
• IndyKCrew
StarCraft: Brood War
• RayReign 121
• Diggity8
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
Dota 2
• masondota21014
League of Legends
• Rush1496
• Stunt462
Other Games
• Scarra2646
• Shiphtur279
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
3h 9m
Wardi Open
6h 9m
RotterdaM Event
11h 39m
Patches Events
14h 9m
PiGosaur Cup
19h 9m
OSC
1d 6h
SOOP
1d 22h
OSC
2 days
OSC
3 days
SOOP
4 days
[ Show More ]
The PondCast
5 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
6 days
IPSL
6 days
DragOn vs Sziky
Liquipedia Results

Completed

BSL Season 21
WardiTV 2025
META Madness #9

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
IPSL Winter 2025-26
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S1: W3
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Thunderfire SC2 All-star 2025
Big Gabe Cup #3
OSC Championship Season 13
Nations Cup 2026
Underdog Cup #3
NA Kuram Kup
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.