RE: The Sale5 Oct 2023 12:19
“The alternative to peace and normalisation is escalation.”
… or more likely frozen, tense, nasty long term border skirmishes, guerilla raids, black ops / ‘terrorist’ raids back and forth between each other’s territories, kidnapping and reprisals, etc etc.
given the cultural and physical genocide planned and already attempted by putin and his collaborators, and the vast tally of rapes, murders, mutilations, enforced transhipment of populations, separation of children from families, torture and destruction already perpetrated by the russians against the ukranian people, they aren’t about to enter into “peace and normalisation” with putin and russia for a generation+.
and if a sizeable portion of ukraine does end up being lost to russia for the longer term, there will be substantial escalation in armaments etc along all the nato countries bordering putin’s empire, as poland , moldova, finland, baltics etc, will not want to be the next to fall in the expansion of putin’s empire, regardless of whether or not the yanks retreat into isolationism or downright autarky.