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Freekmagnet t1_j1q1w0b wrote

Reply to comment by AmeriToast in Russia ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via Yamal-Europe pipeline -Novak by IndependentTHNKR

> Add this to the news that Russia is willing to negotiate

"Russia is willing to negotiate" only if they get to keep half of Ukraine and make the rest a puppet state of Russia. That is their inalienable starting point. A serious starting point for negotiations would be to first remove all Russian military from the entire country of Ukraine, including Crimea; then they can start to negotiate over war reparations and prosecution of war criminals.

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AmeriToast t1_j1q6bdj wrote

If Russia was not in such a bad state, negotiating would not be on the table.

A common negotiation tactic is to ask for everything you want and to negotiate it down from there. Doesn't mean they will get anything. Also, just because Russia is willing to negotiate doesn't mean Ukraine will at the moment.

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KiwasiGames t1_j1t13jk wrote

Ukraine doesn’t really matter in the negotiations. If the west stops providing Ukraine weapons and ends sanctions on Russia, Russia will win (eventually).

Now this is not going to happen. But it’s worth keeping straight who has the power in these plays.

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