RE: Day High again....12 Mar 2025 15:26
Putin doubled down on that position just this week, saying during a March 6 visit to the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation that Russia does not intend to make any compromises in peace negotiations. The Russian president sees no need to make any concessions. His armies are making grinding progress on the battlefield, albeit at a heavy cost in men and materiel. The Russian economy has proven resilient to Western sanctions, growing by more than 4 percent each of the past two years. Ukraine, meanwhile, is facing severe manpower shortages, and Western support is flagging.
In these circumstances, Putin has no pressing need to pursue negotiations or ratchet down the fighting. But to placate Trump, he continues to declare his readiness to talk. That seeks to cast the Ukrainians as the chief obstacle to the swift settlement Trump is seeking and encourages greater U.S. pressure on Kyiv. In the Kremlin’s calculus, that creates a win-win situation. They eventually win either on the battlefield or at the negotiating table—if a weakened Ukraine ever agrees to sit down and talk.
https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/russias-peace-demands-ukraine-have-not-budged
You lot are in dreamworld, Russia will not compromise unless broken on the battlefield