Yeah, Sure...

A classic exceptionalist BS by people who only sense, but are not able to grasp intellectually, what is unfolding. Wet dreamers. 

Ukraine and its Western backers have precious little common ground with Russia. Yet all the key players seem to agree on one critical issue: the war in Ukraine will end in negotiations. As Russian President Vladimir Putin told the conservative broadcaster Tucker Carlson in a recent interview: “We are willing to negotiate.” A spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, while casting doubt on Putin’s sincerity, retorted in a statement that “both we and President Zelensky have said numerous times that we believe this war will end through negotiations.” The absence of decisive battlefield outcomes over the past two years has made the alternative to a negotiated end (one side’s absolute victory) seem like a fantasy.

The war is already ending and it will end in Russia dictating surrender conditions on the West, not on 404 which does not exist anymore as a viable state. I will remind those ignoramuses from CFR that Putin was explicit in his interview with Tucker that the US has very little time left to exit this with some dignity left. I think this time is over, but I could be mistaken. As always, CFR nincompoops failed to understand the context. Vicki Nuland did, albeit too late. 

Even if a deal is currently out of the question, all parties should take steps now to bring about the possibility of talks in the future. In the middle of a war, it is hard to know whether an adversary is genuinely ready to end the fighting or cynically talks of peace only to further the aims of war. The challenge of discerning an adversary’s intentions is nearly impossible in the absence of dialogue. Therefore, it is necessary to open channels of communication so as to be in a position to take advantage of the opportunity to pursue peace when that opportunity comes.

LOL, the US lost the war, fvcking idiots, and it is the battlefield not some diplomatic maneuvering, which is important but derivative, which defines the outcome. The US sits on sky high piles of bodies in 404--the result of military and political incompetence and dialogue is becoming a monologue, the only outcome which was ever possible. Now, they better learn what Russia's readiness to talk is based upon. I'll give a hint, and I quote--a recognition of realities on the ground. Meanwhile, 404 evacuates a truck load of towns in Kharkov (Kupyansk) direction. Just because they want to, right?