• Kalash@feddit.ch
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    11 months ago

    Shitty headline. That is ONLY if Russia gets to keep the annexed territories:

    However, if ending the war would include Russia returning the territories that it has occupied and annexed throughout the conflict, only a third (34 percent) of respondents said they would support that decision.

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      11 months ago

      LOL if the question is like that (“would you stop the war as a winner keeping all the lands and cease the sanctions”) then what the other 30% of people is thinking?

      “Keep fighting because I enjoy watching it on the news?”

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      11 months ago

      I don’t think the war will end until Putin dies. Whether that be next week or in 20 years.

      There’s no way for Putin to retreat and save face. The world can’t afford to allow Russia to win. It will be a horrible stalemate of slaughter until Putin dies and can be blamed by both sides, to be able to negotiate a way out.

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        11 months ago

        I don’t think that scenario has such an optimistic outlook in store. The people in the best position to inherit the seats of power in the Russian state are Putin’s closest clique, who are, for the most part, ultranationalists, who would not only see their newfound power deligitimazed if they immediately signed peace, but would also be acting against their own ideology. Even if there are powerful people in Russia who would prefer to transition towards a different kind of country, they don’t have a clear route to reach power.

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      11 months ago

      lol I knew I saw the exact opposite headline somewhere. “Majority of russians dont want an end to ukraine war if needed to release territories” or something like that

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      11 months ago

      And also it states that

      70 percent of Russians would support Putin should he decide to end the conflict this week.

      It doesn’t necessarily mean that they want to end the war, only that they would support Putin’s decision…