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Ukraine and the West are facing a devastating defeat (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Possibly, it certainly would've eased tensions and delayed any actual conflict.

I think Russia is also too concerned about NATO presence on their largest European border to really allow anything other than Ukraine not joining NATO and the cessation of shelling in the Donbass (and honestly, probably annexation of them too). Plus they would probably want Ukraine to officially recognize Crimea as Russian territory. So basically everything they've been trying to do diplomatically for the past decade and have been ignored on. This war could've been easily avoided had the west and Ukraine been willing to work diplomatically. But the west can't profit from that.