Putin said on Thursday that any peace plan must “solve the root causes” of the war. In Putin’s view, of course, the root cause is Ukraine’s attempts to assert its independence from Russian domination https://wapo.st/4iu0Hh0
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Disarm Ukraine, prevent it from joining NATO or the EU, organize elections that Russia can manipulate to install a puppet in Kyiv, and hence ensure Ukraine’s “neutrality” (ie impotence vs Russia). Democracy in Russia’s neighbors is the main threat to Putin’s regime, and therefore its worst enemy.
To be fair, that’s also Ukraine’s view: there can’t be peace without addressing the root causes of conflict — that is, Russia’s criminal aggression against Ukraine.
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