Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "‘This war will end up at the negotiating table’ — Owen Matthews on Ukraine’s Nato membership" video.

@smillner771 There has never been a "free and fair election" in Ukraine :)
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@IvanLeonard-b7y There was no need to discuss territory at that point because at that point Russia had no territorial demands. Now Russia is in a stronger position, it's too late. Zelensky gambled on the West and lost.
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@IvanLeonard-b7y No kidding? As if anyone didn't know that. Since it's not obvious to you Russia was willing to withdraw back to the January border.
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Last year it's possible artillery inflicted 75% of the casualties, this year, it's FAB bombs and loitering munitions which are the big killers. Obviously Russia has a huge advantage in both of these too so your point stands.
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@smillner771 You're obviously bluffing, you clearly don't know the first thing about Ukraine. if you think there have "tended to be free and fair elections in Ukraine", widely regarded as the most corrupt country in Europe before the war, read Ukraine in the Crossfire by Dutch journalist de Ploeg.
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@smillner771 "Business or government corruption doesn't necessarily correlate with electoral corruption" - true - it doesn't necessarily. But in Ukraine's case there has been plenty of all of it. Yes it's true before Maidan no single faction dominated consistently. Basically governing politicians were so outrageously corrupt (from all factions) incumbents were often jettisoned. That's not actually evidence that elections were clean just because incumbents often lost..
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Since Russia is now winning decisively, why would Putin want to stop the war before Ukraine is so decisively defeated that so called "security guarantees" whether inside or outside of NATO are anything other than on Russia's terms?
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