The irony is, he may very well be playing a game. A very old western game.
Keep Russia isolated.
Pretend to seek rapprochement, while sabotaging any hope of rapprochement.
If so, this will not end well. All stick and no carrot is a weak position from which to gain compliance.
On the flip side of that coin, there are still Ukrainian teenagers that haven't been fed to the meat grinder. Can't let that situation stand.
When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice
"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?