'This war is far from over': History says Russia isn't really interested in peace

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Alexander Nazaryan
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Why be skeptical of Russia's peace talks?

Putin has outlined grandiose pan-Slavic project from which he is unlikely to back away after one bad month of fighting.

Look at what Russia did to Chechnya after '96 peace deal. By 2001, Grozny was flattened

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‘This war is far from over’: History says Russia isn’t really interested in peace
Russian and Ukrainian diplomats appeared to reach the outlines of a ceasefire deal on Tuesday that would halt Moscow’s month-long assault on its much smaller neigher. Even so, observers of Russian...
9:52 AM · Mar 30, 2022

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WASHINGTON — Russian and Ukrainian diplomats appeared to reach the outlines of a ceasefire deal on Tuesday that would halt Moscow’s monthlong assault on its much smaller neighbor. Even so, observers of Russian politics over the last two decades fear that what looks like progress could be a mere bid for time to regroup after a poor offensive to launch a second, more devastating attack.

“I am very, very skeptical of these peace negotiations,” Samuel Ramani, a University of Oxford expert in Russian history and politics, told Yahoo News. “It’s very possible that the Russians could use these negotiations to buy time while escalating and consolidating their presence in eastern Ukraine,” where they already established control over the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Although Russia said it would withdraw from Kyiv and Chernihiv, that offer seemed to some less like an overture for peace than a concession that the siege efforts against the two large cities had gone poorly. Nor is it clear just how much of a withdrawal had taken place by Wednesday morning.

“While there is much talk about the announcement of a Russian troops’ withdrawal from Kyiv,” Swedish intelligence analyst Andreas Umland observed on Twitter, “the current shelling around Kyiv is reported to be actually stronger than before.”

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[Emile]

1. The only negotiation I would give is get the fuck out of Ukraine or

we will take our fight into Russial