That should tell you everything you need to know about whether or not they will honor any agreement made. They have no intention of stopping.

Russia will also seek to extend its gains in Ukraine if peace talks succeed.

It’s such comically obvious geopolitical bullying. But it’s funnier because they are demonstrably utterly incapable of achieving air - let alone general strategic - dominance, so they have to couch their threats in terms like “we will seek”.

Not to mention, even if the ruskies do somehow pull out win eventually, they are gonna have the most absolutely insidiously brutal - and largely invisible and undetectable (since Ukrainians generally do not have much trouble at all passing for native Russians) - insurgency the world has ever seen operating inside of a nuclear power.

Yeah? You and what army?

sometimes nothing is a real cool hand

NO FAKE NEWS! The tankies said Putin only wants the Donbas and wants peace.

When I read these headlines most often I say to myself 'NO SHIT!!' Its all they have been doing for years.

Putin: if you don't give in to me, I'll do exactly what I'm doing.

Not as fast as a snail, but yes he will make gains.

Merry Christmas Mr.Putin.

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Have a nice hot kompot over a very large window.