“What can we negotiate now? We can only nod our heads and agree to their demands, and what they will demand is obviously going to be something that we don’t like” - Ukrainian soldier to WP
- During the Istanbul negotiations, Russia agreed to leave Ukrainian territory in return for restoring Ukraine's neutrality / ending NATO expansionism. The US and UK sabotaged the peace agreement to pursue a long war, as NATO could use Ukrainians to weaken a strategic rival. As Zelensky warned in March 2022: “There are those in the West who don’t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine and comes at the cost of Ukrainian lives”.
- Anyone calling for negotiations over the past 3 years has been smeared as a "Putinist" as the only acceptable "pro-Ukrainian" position was to continue fighting. The consequence? Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are dead and 20% of its territory has been lost. Now it is finally allowed to speak of negotiations as we have run out of Ukrainians. However, a peace agreement today will look nothing like Istanbul in 2022 as  Ukraine and NATO have lost the war, and the terms will get worse every day.   
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