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So you mean to provide Russia with a more stable platform from which to invade again in say, 5 years?

You don't change any of the context that led Russia to invade in the first place. You leave intact an aggressor who has repeatedly and consistently expanded. You gave them Crimea and hoped that would appease them. You tolerated their aggressions in eastern Ukraine. Now you will just give them Donbas and Luhansk and hope once again to appease them?

That strategy might be better accepted if the world hadn't seen 1938-1939.

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Give them Crimea in exchange for an agreement that Ukraine be allowed to apply to join NATO.

Give them Sudeten in exchange for promise that they will not attack Poland.

This tactic worked well for 8 years in the case of Ukraine and was heavily (really heavily) promoted by François Hollande and Angela Merkel.

IMHO, it's good to stick to a tactic with proven track record. The main idea is to feed the monster with virgins. Give them Crimea, then Donbas, then Belarus, then South Ukraine, then Eastern Ukraine, then Central Ukraine, then Western Ukraine, then Georgia, then Finland, etc., etc., etc. With a few years between each scarification, this can keep the monster satiated for a long time, so it will be a problem of your children, while you keep a comfortable style of life. For bang per $, this is the cheapest and safest option for most Europeans and Americans.

If the remainder of Ukraine is covered by NATO after the appeasement, that's the end of Russian aggression.

There is no "and then" with NATO member sovereign territory.

Ukraine is only being invaded by Russia because it isn't a NATO member.

Russia was willing to invade Ukraine, for some land. Russia isn't willing to invade 28 European countries + US + Canada, for some land.

> Russia was willing to invade Ukraine, for some land

Where did you even get this idea? Russia is the largest country in the entire world, encompassing 1/8th of the inhabitable land on Earth ALONE. Why would they get in a fight with the entire world to get a few more hundred squared kilometers of dirt? That doesn't make the remotest sense.

If you don't believe this is about strategic territory, then what do you think it's about?

Nice job of comparing an entire population with more history and culture than you can ever dream of, to a "monster" that feeds itself with virgins. Flagged. This is an open display of racial hate fed by propaganda.

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