I think perhaps I meant a compromise.
I’m sure you did mean compromise, Splinter .
But I’m afraid Putin didn’t consider compromise an option from the start. This just came in:
Vladimir Putin has announced a "military operation" in the Donbas region – a move that has effectively declared war on Ukraine. In a surprise statement on Russian state TV on Thursday morning, Mr Putin called on Ukraine's military to "lay down its arms". |
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This was a manufactured crisis: Putin claimed that Russia had to carry out the “military operation” because the (democratically elected) government in Ukraine had to be “de-Nazified.”
This is a man who has been preparing for war for many months, and has been planning for war even longer. There was no compromising with a tyrant whose eye is on how Russian history will glorify the leader who began the re-creation of the former Soviet Union.