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msongs

(67,371 posts)
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 09:55 PM Mar 2022

so what face saving behavior will get putin out of this jam and end the invasion?

fill in the cliches, cornered animal, wounded animal etc but now that he is in how he can back track and what should ukraine demand of him and get from him. the bunker scenario is fun but highly unlikely

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lapfog_1

(29,194 posts)
3. I don't see any without Ukraine losing up to 1/2 of it's territory
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 09:58 PM
Mar 2022

and even that is unlikely to be acceptable to Putin.

Not to mention.. you can't appease a dictator... we have been there before.

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Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
5. If Putin has smart advisors, they will urge him to get out..If Putin accepts the advice, Putin
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 10:04 PM
Mar 2022

will find a way.to get out. And he will do so with no consequences. And the world will be grateful that he
got out early.

JHB

(37,157 posts)
8. A better question is will the "face saving behavior" be one that gets Putin out of this jam...
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 10:16 PM
Mar 2022

...or one that gets Russia out of this jam by ousting Vlad and blaming everything on him.

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