I don't think there should be trading of territory for peace or... Why should the Russians have no veto on whether Ukraine can belong to NATO or the EU? Nothing to do with Russia. But as has been stated, we have hundreds of people dying in the middle of this war. Is it a possibility that we should be the people who might, you know, be negotiating or talking to people in back channels or whatever? is it something they should be thinking about? And I'm not aware of any back channels since the early days of the war. It's pointless talking about hypothetical deals until the Putin regime is driven to the point of exhaustion where it collapses.
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