• palordrolap@fedia.io
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      23 hours ago

      Zelenskyy would have to be foolish to expect anything else at this point, so this had to have been for another reason. Possibly to prove that Putin remains a terrible person and to keep the conflict in the news.

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        Obviously. There was a reason for the letter to be publicly available. Now on top of all other things, Zelenskyy is yet agian publicly the peace guyy and Putin yet again the war mongering asshole

      • plutopos@lemmy.zip
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        Yeah. This way people can’t say “oH bUt HaVe YoU tRiEd sPeAkINg wiTh hiM”

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          I’d love to see it but I can’t realistically see it happening. Unless Europe gets much more serious with giving Ukraine more weapons

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            This past week, Ukraine started hitting closer to cities again, there was some propaganda going around about a school getting hit by a Ukrainian strike and Zelenskyy being another civilian murderer. So yeah, there’s always a need to press on the “I did try to talk peace” angle over and over.

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        The motive that makes sense to me is that Zelensky is really speaking to everyone else in Russia who might be exhausted with the war, and seeking to embolden them. Ukraine can now do this from a position of strength, where Russia simply cannot protect their own airspace.

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          Ukrainians know how Russians think. If he was genuinely thinking he could request a meeting with someone who has personally ordered his death, he’d have to be stupider than Prigozhin. No, this was absolutely a power move, and a clear signal to Russians that Putin is weak.

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        Imo one point of this is to get rid of the USA role in the negotiations. Its now reduced to “they can observe a ceasefire”. Good.

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      Well, if you write a love letter and hoping to meet up, you really shouldn’t make threats.