Well Kremlin could pull out from Ukraine and there would be no attacks on gas hubs
Ukraine could have simply not continued to try to join NATO and also get nukes
Oh sorry we only care about nukes if it’s the scary brown enemy people?? heh, thought so
it would be much easier for everyone involved for the ukrainian government let the people in its eastern provinces switch flags to russia like they wanted to back in 2014.
To use an interpersonal metaphor: this is the most prolonged and violent case of an abusive person not just letting their partner fucking leave I’ve ever seen
this metaphor ignores the reasons why the war is happening and i’ll try to explain the reality of the situation by expanding upon the methaphor:
if the two governments were partners once, then one of the partners was gaslit by another who openly admits to having maimed the other partner and intends to continue doing so by making the gaslit partner take a hostile stance towards the maimed partner and enabled some of both partner’s children into pogroming some of the other children that want to rejoin the maimed partner; so the maimed partner has stepped in to try to stop it.
