Negotiate Peace With Russia to Prevent War Over Ukraine

Durandal · Feb 26, 2022

AARguy said: ↑

Cool.Maybe we'll get back in charge of the space station that was BUILT BY THE UNITED STATES!
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It's aging and soon to be retired anyway. Plus, low-quality Russian hardware was starting to become a safety issue.

Space_Time · Mar 1, 2022

I can't believe this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science...a-ukraine-international-space-station/622939/

The Russian Invasion Touches Outer Space

The long-held idea that earthly conflict can’t tarnish something as lofty as space travel is only a platitude, not a certainty.

By Marina Koren

A view of the International Space Station from a departing Russian capsule

A view of the International Space Station from a departing Russian capsule (Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty)

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This week, as Russia unleashed a violent assault on Ukraine, the director of Russia’s space agency went on a rant. After President Joe Biden announced on Thursday new sanctions against Russia that would, among other effects, “degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program,” Dmitry Rogozin responded with a series of tweets about the International Space Station: “Do you want to destroy our cooperation on the ISS? If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled deorbit and a fall on the United States or Europe? … The ISS doesn’t fly over Russia, so the risks are all yours.”

At first glance, the statement seems, well, pretty unhinged. Particularly because Russia is one of the nations that operates the ISS, and has two of its own cosmonauts on board. (And, although the station’s orbital path falls mostly outside of Russia, the ISS does pass over a small part of its southern border.)
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RoanokeIllinois · Aug 2, 2022

Destroyer of illusions said: ↑

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/negotiate-peace-russia-prevent-war-over-ukraine-198738
In 2021, Russia dealt several tangible blows to the credibility of the United States.
1. The deal between Russia and OPEC. The United States loudly demanded to increase oil production, but no one paid attention to these demands. The OPEC countries and Russia brushed aside the "hegemon" and continued to do their job. The United States had to submit off and sell oil from its strategic reserves. To say that this is humiliating is to say nothing.
2. The defeat of the US-funded Russian "opposition". Nobody paid any attention to US "concerns" in Moscow. Three days ago, one more shop was closed: "Memorial", and the "hegemon" again to submit.
3. Completion of the construction of "Nord Stream - 2". What have we not heard from the "hegemon"! "The pipeline will never be completed", "we will not allow", "we forbid", ... And what kind of sanctions were promised!... But in the end, the White House is sadly silent.
4. Disorganization of the work of the US Embassy in Moscow. The White House is used to the fact that no one answers their antics. Russia replied so, that the US ambassador in Moscow is forced, relatively speaking, to work as a cleaner: the embassy is empty, there is no one even to clean up. There is no one to conduct intelligence, no one to coordinate the actions of the Russian opposition ...
5. The Russian Foreign Minister has sharply changed his rhetoric. Instead of neutral diplomatic turns, he began to call things by their proper names: intervention, aggression, coups d'état, financing the opposition and many other long-obvious tricks of the "hegemon". Cheating began to be called a scam, provocation provocations. No one in the world allowed such a thing (although no, sorry: China in 2021 also began to use such terms).
6. "Red Lines of Russia". No one in history has ever announced the "red lines" to Washington, a year ago this seemed impossible. Literally on the eve of his conversation with Putin, old man Biden proudly declared that he would not tolerate any red lines. But had to endure.
7. And finally, coercion to negotiate. What was the first reaction to the Russian proposals? “Yes, we never, no way, but who is this Russia? …… ". And now the date and place of the start of negotiations have already been announced. The world has already begun to get used to the unexpected steps of Russia, time after time destroying the authority of the "world leader". And the ultimatum demand for negotiations on security simply plunged many countries into shock. They realized that nothing is impossible for Russia, and they are watching with interest how the now former "hegemon" will get out.

"The show must go on," as they sung in an old song.

Today, there is no need to deploy missiles in Cuba, because submarines carrying missiles are on duty on the east and west coast of America and it is impossible to shoot them down. Perhaps General Gerasimov will tell his American colleagues about this and say: “Either you fulfill our requirements, or we will act at our own discretion. Any installations in Romania? We will think about how to destroy them."
The Russian side tells the West: “We assess the current situation, which you have brought up, as a direct threat to the existential existence of Russia. If you do not agree to remove this threat, it means that we ourselves will decide where the biggest threat is and we will destroy it.
If this threat to the West is addressed by inadequate American and European politicians who can say: "This cannot be." But in the West there are also military and intelligence services who know a lot about the real capabilities of Russia. It seems to me that Russian demands to the West have just such a meaning: "Come, we will tell you what will happen if you do not agree to our demands."
The American and European militaries really understand the real threats, because they exist for this, this is their daily work, not chatter, as in Congress, the Council of Europe or the European Parliament, but a real concern for the security of their countries. Therefore, they must know and understand everything about the capabilities of a potential adversary.
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To bad Democrat Politicians and Joe Biden don't want Peace, but only want to screw over Americans as much as possible, and try to make America into a Socialist Country.

WillReadmore · Aug 2, 2022

RoanokeIllinois said: ↑

To bad Democrat Politicians and Joe Biden don't want Peace, but only want to screw over Americans as much as possible, and try to make America into a Socialist Country.
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Ok, you really need to figure out what caused you to think that.

Monash · Aug 3, 2022

WillReadmore said: ↑

Ok, you really need to figure out what caused you to think that.
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No 'thinking' involved. Just just paranoid 'venting', aka a 'brain fart.

James California · Aug 3, 2022

~ A special negotiator is being sent to Russia for a meeting with Pootin ...

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