Im not a fan of the NY Times as you know, but I prefer to debate the facts
In April 2022, Ukraine and Russia were on the brink of signing a deal to end the war just weeks after it began.
The New York Times published documents showing President Vladimir Putin was
willing to make concessions to get an agreement signed.
According to the documents, Putin initially sought to have Kiev recognize Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. However, a draft agreement from April 15, 2022, suggests both parties were prepared to set aside the issue to end the conflict. "Paragraph 1 of Article 2 and Articles 4, 5, and 11 of this Treaty
shall not apply to Crimea and Sevastopol," the document says.
The actual documents were published
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My bottom line remains, we should not be there, the war was started by the US and Western Europe forcing the NATO membership idea on Putin and we toppled a government in 2014 to help move that along. Now we're very close to direct NATO/Russia engagement, which Blackrock and corrupt US politicians who used it as their laundromat, are salivating over.
I'm sick and fucking tired of sending hundreds of $billions to a Ukraine, (which has a pretty poor track record of corruption) and using it to spin up another long term war to feed Raytheon, Boeing, and others while US politicians line their fucking pockets.