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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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Again, "end it, get back to normalcy" isn't one of the available options here. The two options available are: keep fighting status status quo, or give away people and land to Putin in exchange for his word he won't keep going (as he's broken in the past). What you're suggesting is a negotiated solution, which Ukraine will not accept because this will be the third one and Putin broke the last two immediately. You're now speculating that Putin will keep his word like he hasn't in the past. As you say, nothing is guaranteed, so your option is to give Putin some of their people to torture in exchange for his word that he won't do what he did the last two times he gave them his word