Zelensky, on top of his other efforts, has been busy drawing together a peace conference to take place in Switzerland:
Switzerland to host Ukraine peace conference in June, without Russia
Switzerland said Wednesday (10 April) it would organise a high-level peace conference for Ukraine in mid-June, but without Russia, which promptly slammed the event as a US-orchestrated plot.
Ukraine and up to 100 countries would attend the conference at the luxury Burgenstock resort near the central city of Luzern on June 15-16, which Swiss President Viola Amherd said she would host.
“This is a first step in a process towards a lasting peace,” she told reporters in Bern.
Amherd acknowledged that “we will not sign a peace plan at this conference” but “we hope to start the process.”
https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/switzerland-to-host-ukraine-peace-conference-in-june-without-russia/
Now, you may object that this isn't "real" because it excludes Russia. It has long lost any credibility as an actor or negotiator in good faith, so its inclusion at that stage would be pointless and simply hand its representatives another opportunity for disgraceful grandstanding. The conference will explore, in Zelensky's words, a "fair" settlement as a basis for an end to hostilities.
The results of that probably won't please you either. Tough. It will almost certainly exclude handing Russia the chunks of Ukraine it's devastated and pillaged that were granted to Ukraine by international treaty. Putin himself signed over Crimea to Ukraine at the turn of the century, confirming earlier agreements - something he seems to have conveniently forgotten or sought to shamelessly renege on just as he's sought to renege on a host of other treaties, in some cases going back centuries.
I've read your claims to some sort of "high ground" as a lonely pacifist. As a long-time peace campaigner who was very active in the 1980s, your arguments are the sort that give the peace movement a bad name. You repeat Russian propaganda, seemingly without realizing it. You would have Ukraine capitulate to continued savage acts of aggression and complete disregard for international law and human rights. You're dangerously close to adopting the same propagandistic arguments, but you don't seem to realize it no matter how many people try to persuade you. What you keep proposing would inevitably lead to even greater bloodshed and an even more protracted conflict.
You need to find out about how Russia has treated areas and people it has claimed during the conflict since 2014. Aside from the vast number of horrible atrocities, including rape, torture and various other acts of wanton sadism and murder, it's had no concern for human rights or democracy, and has victimized various groups, including a number of religious ones. These are the areas and people you claim would be only too happy to continue under Russian governance. It's nonsense and it's shameful.
What you keep suggesting would not lead to any sort of meaningful peace. That can only come when Russia withdraws behind its internationally agreed borders and ceases its savage attacks on human population centres. But all the signs are that all that would happen would be a tense pause as Russia regroups and prepares for its next adventure. We went through all that when it seized Crimea.
Your arguments reek of the same sort of US isolationism that kept America out of the Second World War until it came under attack on its own soil. It is an attitude that's completely out of step with the rest of NATO (Hungary excluded), whose countries have a very clear idea of what they face with Russia and Putin at its helm. They're not stupid, and they're largely not natural warmongers. But they do have longer memories than you seem to have.
How many times do Russian propagandists have to set out what their kleptocratic scofflaw government plans to do before you finally wake up and believe them? Check out Julia Davis on YouTube or Twitter - she gives daily updates on the insane, bloodcurdling violent sadistic murderous imperialistic fantasies that drive the current Russian regime from the very mouths of its own state-sponsored propagandists.
To focus just on Putin himself, in the period around his interview with Tucker Carlson (which ended up giving even Carlson second thoughts about the asshole), he was asked about the prospects for peace negotiations.
He said that it would be stupid for Russia to even think about negotiations while Ukraine was so horribly short of armamaments as there was so much more Russia could gain by fighting on.
That is who you'd have Zelensky negotiate with from a position of weakness and surrender to.
Quit supporting Putin and his fellow travellers in the name of your illusory "peace". It's an insult to the many innocent dead and maimed Ukrainians and those who will keep suffering if you have your way and the many brave pacifists who've had to confront and adapt their philosophy in the face of real-world events.
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