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[–]hfxB0oyA[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Negotiations worked 100% of time during the cold war. Both of these assholes need to get to the table, now.

[–]Site_rly_sux 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah so, you're thinking that Putin is sure to give up his illegal holdings in negotiations at a proper official table. It's just that nobody has tried to negotiate at a table with him. Is that your view?

Because you're wrong, in Belarus in March and Turkey in April and all around central Asia in August and September, Putin was taken to a negotiating table and asked to give up his illegal holdings. He declined and instead conscripted a million new soldiers.

So what now? Should we reward his nuclear terrorism by allowing him to keep his illegal holdings? Is that your recommendation now that I've disabsued you of the incorrect notion that, nobody has sat him down at a proper official table.

So taking your argument that one step further - we've met him at the table, and rewarded his nuclear terrorism by letting him keep some illegal holdings. Has the world tension gone to zero? Have nascent nuclear powers like Iran and Saudi and North Korea learned a good lesson: that you had better behave, or you'll get taken to a table where you can name any price.

Is that the world you want to live in.