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Tom Clemans's avatar

Any dreams of running for president in a few decades?

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It won't be possible end the Russo-Ukrainian War by making Ukraine give concessions, and Ukraine will *not* stop defending its territory if NATO and other countries were to stop supplying the Ukrainian military. If NATO pressured Ukraine to sign a peace treaty with Russia, Russia would simply invade Ukraine once more several years later (Crimea in 2014, Ukraine in 2022-23, and Ukraine again in ~2027), and Ukraine would be in an even worse position because they would've completely lost the Donbas, Crimea, strategic/defensive territories, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, most of their Black Sea ports, and international recognition of much of their territory.

NATO countries like Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania and most of Eastern Europe would never tolerate allowing Russia to keep the Ukrainian territory that they have now. Russia invading Ukraine endangers *their* national security too, especially if a Russia-occupied Ukraine reached their national borders. NATO cannot risk letting that possibility happen. If NATO wants to guarantee a stable buffer zone against Russia, then they have to keep supplying Ukraine. The reason why *all* NATO countries are so willing to send weapons and supplies to Ukraine is because it's in their self-interests.

The Russian government has very strong geopolitical, national, cultural, defensive, and political incentives to keep invading Ukraine until they conquer the entire country, even if this is not aligned with the interests of the average Russian citizen. Most countries are aware of this.

The only way to end the war for good is to make Russia lose, most likely by starving their war budget into oblivion. The alternative is that Russia waits a while, and attacks again, just like how they waited 8 years after stealing Crimea to strike again. The world should've already learned that appeasement doesn't work after Germany invaded Poland in 1939, a year after they annexed Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938.

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