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Russia won't end Ukraine war until NATO "pulls out" of Baltics: Moscow

c/europe · u/Potato@feddit.org · 105 points

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u/vga@sopuli.xyz · 5 points

Well yeah ok. I think we can hope for a relative diminishment of utter fucking insanity.

u/huppakee@feddit.nl · 6 points

… 3-4 years to go … the west is then back to normalcy.

That sound a little optimistic lol

u/SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 13 points

No no no. Promise to move out, don't move out, blame Putin for not ending the war in Ukraine because you were totally going to move out.

u/Hirom@beehaw.org · 6 points

I doubt countries sharing a border with Ukraine or Russia would want to take that risk, but let's ses how these countries reply, if they even bother to.

u/shalafi@lemmy.world · 39 points

Nothing surprising here. Putin can't shutdown his wartime economy without crashing the state, and himself. Expect more and more of these ridiculous headlines and moving of goalposts.

u/magnetosphere@fedia.io · 35 points

So… the grade school bully (with a reputation for lying) is promising he’ll only stop punching your friend IF you close your eyes and put your hands behind your back. Hmm.

u/DmMacniel@feddit.org · 21 points

And because of what is happening in Ukraine the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) won't want to lose their NATO membership. So it's just again an empty demand.

u/helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz · 14 points

How would that even work? Would Estonia have to station its own (NATO) forces in Finland?

Would Lithuania and Latvia have to do basic training in Poland?

It's obviously not serious.

u/vga@sopuli.xyz · 11 points

So Russia, and Russia alone, wants to continue the war. Not exactly new information but gotcha. I guess Putin has like 3-4 years to go until Democrats win pretty much everything in USA and the west is then back to normalcy.

But hey, I guess the bright side is that he might die extremely painfully before even that.

In the meanwhile, I think the west should be putting significant resources into instigating a revolution in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Communist, liberal, centrist, conservatist, I don't care. Just split up that shit. And this time when Russian state breaks up, don't let them keep their earlier status in UN and give them a similar deal regarding nuclear weapons as Ukraine was given.

u/Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 points

Yeah and I won't stop eating this delicious chocolate until my cat starts speaking German. See, we can all make insane demands to keep doing something.

u/Quittenbrot@feddit.org · 9 points

F*** off from Crimea and the other occupied territories in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, also leave Belarus and we *might* think about it.

u/johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl · 8 points

We should give Russia some of its own medicine. We move out, promise to not move back in, then later on break that promise.

It’s the only language they understand.