@EugeneMcParland so basically #Russia demands worse terms than the "#StatusQuoAnteBellum" as per #BudapestMemorandum.
- If I were #Zelenskyy I'd literally answer that "I can also demand absurd shite" and demand control over Russia's nukes and #Putin to be delivered to the #ICC.
Even the "Status Quo Ante Bellum" is too little.
IMHO anything but #Ukraine being a full #EU & #NATO member with "#BootsOnTheGround" in the borders of 1994-2011 alongside a #DemilitarizedZone 100km into Russia from the border and 50km from Belarus is already letting the Putin-Regime off the hook.
Whoever thinks one can "negotiate with Russia" and by negotiate doesn't mean 'pushing dual-wielded Stechkin APBs against Putin's head that are cocked, loaded with a round in the chamber and set to full auto' has completely lost sight of things...
- Putin's fanbase want a neo-Czarist Empire."From Dublin to the Yukon!"