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Edward Slavsquat's avatar

Dear Mr. Rolo, allow me to add another thought I just had about all this... are you ready?...

WHY WASN'T THIS DEAL PUBLICIZED TO THE WHOLE WORLD BEFORE MOSCOW PULLED OUT ITS TROOPS? WHY DIDN'T MOSCOW DEMAND THIS?

Surely that would have been Russia's best "insurance policy"? Before moving a single troop a single inch, Zelensky must ascend a podium and announce that a deal had been (at least tentatively??) reached?

I get that the Bucha thing was probably designed to make it politically impossible for Kiev to ultimately honor the agreement, BUT STILL. It would have been A LOT more difficult to pull the plug on the deal, if it had already been made public. Like, even if Russia was accused of war crimes, the Kremlin could have agreed to a UN probe, etc. etc., blah blah blah.

Am I missing something here? Because I just don't understand why this didn't happen. WHERE WAS THE INSURANCE POLICY? Honestly, the only answer I have to these questions is that Russia was NOT negotiating from a position of strength, and had already realized that the SMO was lost by the end of March 2022 (since it wasn't supposed to be an actual military conquest; it was a Crimea-style military psy-op that failed spectacularly, and was launched without any Plan B).

What do you think, Lord Rolo? HELP ME UNDERSTAND.

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Ostap Bender's avatar

Hi Rolo, one more (final) sub you need? Wow, finally you will stop “begging” for subs…still: I and some like minded humans appreciate your work and specific perspectivism on the situation at hand…just keep on doing this excellent work!😎

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