Comments by "Tim Trewyn" (@timtrewyn453) on "Putin ceasefire calls for Ukraine withdrawal from occupied regions u0026 NATO bid" video.

  1. If nothing else, this is a signal that Putin is open to both sides meeting to present each other with their latest wish lists. Rather than dismissing Putin's wish list, Ukraine should just present theirs, too, even if both sides essentially already know what the other wants. Just setting up the logistics for talks is helpful. One area that might get more extensive discussion is attacks on civilian electric utility systems. Ukraine could point out this war crime and put on the table its own potential retaliation against the Russian electric utility system if these attacks do not stop. The two sides would have to consider their gain or loss of domestic support and moral authority on this humanitarian issue. Russia has a robust electric utility system for Moscow and St. Petersburg, but other areas are more vulnerable and get very cold in the winter. Ukraine needs these attacks to stop so it can be ready for winter. Russia is going to need missiles to attack bases with incoming F-16s soon anyway. This could be a very interesting discussion that could lead to another topic for productive negotiations that could start on the path to an armistice someday, although the circumstances and interests indicate this conflict could be many more years long. Russia is looking to offset a rising China and feels a need to accumulate power. It does not imagine itself as a member of a community of nations so much as seeing itself as necessarily dominant. That is its psychopathic handicap.
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