>Politicians with their instinct for survival are inevitably rationalising the justification for concessions.
Ignoring my failure to understand the logic behind rewarding a psychopath with yet more control over your food and fuel supplies -
If Macron, Scholz and Draghi (and that senile nonaganarian Kissinger) think that giving away Ukranian territory that isn't theirs to give away will satisfy Putin and they'll then be hailed as giants of diplomacy they are seriously misreading the situation.
Actually, I don't think it's that. Too many people have pointed out to them the problems in allowing Putin and his goons the chance to correct their military £$%^-ups and take another shot. All three of them are also taking flak from their domestic media and Scholz is facing direct threats from within his coalition. They must be very aware of where Joe Public's sympathies lie.
Maybe I'm being overly suspicious but it's beginning to smack of desperation and there's a whiff of something not quite right. Whatever they are up to, there's no winding the clock back on this one. Too much evidence of wanton brutality and war crimes for that.
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