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Originally Posted by activeStick
For me, nothing is guaranteed. This includes Russia continuing to take more territory after an agreement is reached or even that NATO doesn't expand its members further, leading to Russia feeling threatened again and deciding to invade another sovergin country. So, for me, they could keep the war going to prevent what they speculate might happen, and while doing this, "accept" that another 100k+ Ukrainian soliders will die, or end it, get back to normalcy and maybe Putin dies and his successor doesn't do something similar.
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This is an odd position to take here. Say your neighbour on the right had a problem with you being friends with your neighbour on your left and you got into a fight over it. If your neighbor broke into your house, shot and killed your wife, taken your son hostage, then proceeded to occupy your top floor and continues to shoot at you from the upper levels saying he'd only stop firing if you and the government sign the deed of the the top floor to him and let him keep your kid, would that be acceptable? This would be a neighbour who's violated two restraining orders against you in the past and previously beaten you up. Are his future actions guaranteed? Do you give in to his demands or meet him half way on crazy?
Ukraine is not being unreasonable here, they are willing to negotiate if Russia withdraws to their pre-invasion borders which Putin already rejected.