LOL @ Russia's demands.
If I may paraphrase Gandalf, 'this is much to demand for the delivery of one [ceasefire]: that your Master should receive in exchange what he must else fight many a war to gain! Or has the field of [Ukraine] destroyed his hope in war, so that he falls to haggling?"
If I may paraphrase Gandalf, 'this is much to demand for the delivery of one [ceasefire]: that your Master should receive in exchange what he must else fight many a war to gain! Or has the field of [Ukraine] destroyed his hope in war, so that he falls to haggling?"
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They're demanding total surrender.
Until then it will continue.
But there is no solution to this that doesn't involve seriously threatening Putin with defeat.
And likely very few that doesn't require following through.
Tougher sell.
Unfortunately there are some with power here who would happily go back to buying their stuff.
An unserious offer which should embarrass pro-Russian voices in Washington.
If they were still capable of shame.
Good luck with that version of the Melian Dialogue.
That's the point of bullies. They push and take even more. That's the style, they won't get embarrassed.
But we ought to have provided a lot more aid, a lot faster.
I really want the Russians to go home, but failing that, I wish them a happy 155mm DPICM.
May as well, given whatever else they’re asking for.
1.) the lives of the soldiers whose bodies were hewn even as they lay dead at the gates of the Hornburg are avenged
2.) you answer for the burning of the Westfold and the children that lie dead there
3.) you hang on a gibbet as a plaything for your own crows