Conventional wisdom holds that a negotiated end to the Ukraine war is neither possible nor desirable. This belief is false.
It is also extremely dangerous for Ukraine’s future. The war is not trending toward a stable stalemate, but toward Ukraine’s eventual collapse. Russia has corrected many of the problems that plagued its forces during the first year of fighting and adopted an attrition strategy that is gradually exhausting Ukraine’s forces, draining American military stocks, and sapping the West’s political resolve. Sanctions have not crippled Russia’s war effort, and the West cannot fix Ukraine’s acute manpower problems absent direct intervention in the war. Ukraine’s best hope lies in a negotiated settlement that protects its security, minimizes the risks of renewed attacks or escalation, and promotes broader stability in Europe and the world.
Inb4 shitlibs tell me the Quincy Institute is Russian agitprop
Putin is so far past giving the tiniest shit about diplomacy that it will only ever be a stop gap. Crimea was responded to with a whole bunch of wishy washy “diplomatic solutions” and oh look, it happened again. This sort of fake-moderate response of diplomacy and restrain only feeds further into Putin’s war chest.
You cannot reason with empire-building dictators that ignore all such restraints. Russia is no longer a free country, frankly never has been, and should be treated harshly as the territory-hungry, human rights abusing, tyrannical neo-USSR that it is.
Anglo fascist NATO propaganda detected
They literally just murdered Putin’s most prominent political rival. Just yesterday.
Uh no that is not how it works, besides he loved Neo-Nazis so he can go die happily.
“He was a Nazi,” Russian propagandist’s favorite excuse for killing people.
Most sane lemmy.ml mod
Most sane redditor?
oh no, I used to use a popular website until it fell apart and I left. That clearly invalidates my entire opinion.
edit: wow, your replies make it obvious you are way down the russian rabbit hole. I’d rather not. See ya.
Why would we tell you when everyone can just google it:
Self-proposed centrist think tank with questionable funding… check
Aligning with Trump’s ideas of foreign policies… check
Isolationist, cases of anti-semitism… check and check
Doubting the Uyghur genocide… check
Dovish response to Russia’s invasion… check
Several resignations caused by their completely ignorance of Russian actions to exclusively criticise Ukraine and NATO… check
I rarely agree with Republican politicians but the description of the Quincy Institute as “an isolationist blame America first money pit for so-called ‘scholars’ who’ve written that American foreign policy could be fixed if only it were rid of the malign influence of Jewish money” seemed very fitting.