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To: skinowski who wrote (755932)1/25/2022 2:30:21 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 793843
 
Sometimes the compromise is not really on the table, esp. not up front. Kissinger failed to get agreement any number of times.

Russia doesn't really have serous relevant problems here, it has ambitions more than anything else. Its not being infringed on which it wants to stop, it wants a relatively free hand to infringe on others. That's the problem with seeking compromise. There might be something it hasn't even mentioned, that it would like and could take as a way to save face, and not look like its backing down for nothing. Even then its not perfect your rewarding threats and aggression, but it may be the best way out.

Or it may be, that its just posturing to try to get the US and NATO to cave and maybe the Ukraine to find something to give up as well, without ever wanting to pay the price for any future escalation. I'd be the odds of that as over 50 percent but not high enough to just not worry about things.
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